Photinia glabra
Japanese photinia · also Red leaf photinia, Red top
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Japanese Photinia is an attractive evergreen shrub or multi-trunk tree with shiny foliage and showy spring flowers. It is very durable, tolerating heat, dryness, and poor soils, and may require light trimming to maintain height.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 8750.39%—2.4 in
- 170.01%—3.8 in
- 10.00%—15 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Form
- Multi-trunk
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 15–20 ft
- Canopy spread
- 10–15 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate
- Blooms
- Mar, Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 3.6 in, 90th percentile 3.8 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests
- Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
Other Photinia in the catalogue
6 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
