Stewartia malacodendron
Silky Camellia
- Hardiness
- USDA Zones 7–9
- Mature size
- Height 6–12 Feet · Spread 6–10 Feet
This variety is no actively in production in our propagation house and may not return to our catalogue. We maintain this page purely for reference and archival purposes. If you would like to grow this plant, tell us. Your interest helps guide what we bring back.
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Stewartia malacodendron is a much sought native deciduous shrub. It is in the Tea Family so related to Camellia. It is found mostly on streamside slopes in rich woods and is widely scattered in spots from Virginia to Florida and west to Texas. It has beautiful white flowers like a single rose but with purple staymens. If it were easy to grow it would be a standard landscape plant and not a special sought-after connoisseur plant. It is happy in the garden once established in neutral to slightly acid sandy soil with good drainage, adequate moisture, and shade from hot afternoon sun.
white with purple stamens