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Plant: Green Vase - Zelkova Tree
Zelkova Tree · Zelkova serrata 'Green Vase'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
A large deciduous shade tree selected for a tighter, more narrowly vase shaped canopy than the species, with ascending branches that recall the American elm. Simple serrate leaves 1 to 3 inches long are dark green through summer and turn a mix of orange, bronze and red in fall, over light gray bark that grows mottled and slightly exfoliating with age. It wants full sun and a moist, well drained soil but accepts clay, sand and a wide pH range, and once established it tolerates heat, drought, wind and urban conditions. Resistant to Dutch elm disease, it is used as a lawn shade tree and specimen where a broad vase form has room to develop.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 70 ft tall and 50 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A large deciduous shade tree selected for a tighter, more narrowly vase shaped canopy than the species, with ascending branches that recall the American elm. Simple serrate leaves 1 to 3 inches long are dark green through summer and turn a mix of orange, bronze and red in fall, over light gray bark that grows mottled and slightly exfoliating with age. It wants full sun and a moist, well drained soil but accepts clay, sand and a wide pH range, and once established it tolerates heat, drought, wind and urban conditions. Resistant to Dutch elm disease, it is used as a lawn shade tree and specimen where a broad vase form has room to develop.
- Flowers
- Small green flowers under an inch across open in spring with the emerging leaves and are not ornamentally significant.
- Foliage
- Simple alternate leaves are elliptical to ovate, 1 to 3 inches long, sharply serrate, dark green in summer and turning a mix of orange, bronze and red in fall.
- Fruit
- The fruit is a small green to brown drupe carried in summer, of little ornamental value.
- Bark & stems
- Bark is light gray to grayish brown and smooth when young, marked with numerous lenticels, and becomes more mottled and slightly exfoliating with age.
- Native range
- China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan
