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Sophora japonica
Japanese Pagodatree, Japanese Pagoda Tree
| Family |
| Fabaceae |
| Genus |
| Sophora |
| Species |
| japonica |
| Category |
| Woody |
| Type |
| Tree (evergreen), Shrub (evergreen) |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 8b |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| Requires cold season protection under glass. |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H4 |
| Temperature (°C) |
| - 10 |
| Temperature (°F) |
| 14 |
| Height |
| 18 m |
| Spread |
| 24 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| General Description |
| A very urban tolerant tree especially to heat, drought, pollution, compacted soils, and poor soils. |
| Landscape |
| Shade, specimen, or Summer-flowering focal point trees. |
| Cultivation |
| Performs best in full sun in moist, well-drained soils of average fertility, but is very urban tolerant. |
| Growth |
| Medium |
| ID Characteristic |
| A very showy and eye-catching tree when in flower. |
| Pests |
| Potato leaf hopper, twig blight, branch and trunk canker. |
| Habitat |
| Upright rounded growth habit in youth, becoming more spreading with age. |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| The trunk has interlacing ridges and is more deeply furrowed, becoming light brown to gray-brown with maturity. |
| Leaf Description |
| Alternate, medium to dark green, with about 9 to 13 ovate leaflets with acute apices per pinnately compound leaf, having faded green to chartreuse autumn colour. |
| Flower Description |
| Creamy-white to yellowish-green large inflorescences. |
| Fruit Description |
| Yellow-green fruit, with the large beans appearing as knobs. |
| Texture Description |
| Green twigs and greenish-yellow young branches for the first four years of growth, becoming chartreuse-brown, pseudo-striated branches with age |
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