Schima (Theaceae)

wallichii

Forming trees 6-15 m tall in gardens, with brown glabrous young branches and silvery haired buds. Bearing elliptic-oblong to lanceolate leathery leaves 8-14 × 2-5 cm, glaucous and reticulate below, on 1-1.5 cm long petioles. With solitary Camellia-like white orbicular sepalled flowers, or in racemes of 3-8, July to September, followed by globose capsules that split into 5. From seed we were given by North Carolina's Crop Improvement Station in Asheville, in 2017. Best grown in drained acidic soil in full sun to moderate shade in an area protected from severe cold.