Family Salicaceae
Originating from China

Large, ovate leaves – like a rubber plant! Broadly upright in habit with red/purple shoots and oval, blue/green leathery leaves. Can be pollarded as a shrub to produce outsize foliage or allowed to grow as a tree with architectural stature. A choice collector’s specimen.
Deep, fertile, moist soil. Does not do well in thin, chalky soil.

Height and spread after 2 – 3 years 1.5m x 1m
Semi mature height and spread after 6 – 8 years 2.5m x 2m
Potential height and spread after 15 years plus, 4m x 4m