Toona sinensis 'Flamingo'
Family - Meliaceae
Category - Tree
Origin - Raised in Australia
Year of Introduction - Prior to 1930
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H4
Height - up to 8m
Width - up to 4m
Location - The Hot Garden
Description: A Deciduous, medium-sized tree, that is often used as a multi-stemmed Shrub. Attractive leaves emerge hot pink in the spring before turning pale yellow and then green for the summer. The pinnate leaves have ovate to lanceolate leaflets and are held on deep, cherry red petioles. Small, fragrant, greenish-white flowers are produced in pendant panicles in mid-summer.
Flower:
Fragrant, small, cup-shaped flowers are held in long, pendulous panicles and are produced in July.
Flower colour: Greenish-white
Flower shape: Cup-shaped flowers in panicles
Flowering time: July
Foliage:
Pinnate leaves with ovate to lanceolate leaflets emerge hot pink in the spring, fade to pale yellow and then turn green for the summer. The leaflets are held on deep red petioles. Good yellow autumn colour.
Foliage Senescence: Deciduous
Foliage Shape: Pinnate with ovate to lanceolate leaflets
Autumn Colour: Yellow
Propagation:
Cuttings.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun in fertile, moisture retentive, but well drained soil.