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Silverbell

Halesia

Also called Silverbells

Silverbell
Photo: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Styracaceae (Styrac family)
Grows as
Tree

About

Halesia, also known as silverbell or snowdrop tree, is a small genus of four or five species of deciduous large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae.

How to grow it

Silverbells are popular ornamental plants in large gardens, grown for their delicate pendant flowers in late spring.

Where it grows

They are native to eastern Asia (southeast China) and eastern North America (southern Ontario, Canada south through Florida and eastern Texas, United States).

Other Halesia plants

Carolina silverbell · Two-wing silverbell · Mountain Silverbell · Mountain silverbell

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Halesia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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