Parrotia subaequalis prophouse-fall-2027 ranging from coastal Virginia through

ranging from coastal Virginia through Florida and west along the Gulf

while sanguinea nods at the blood-red flush the flowers take on with age

the crown fills with rich green leaves that read as substantial and handsome through the heat of summer

and deer will leave the foliage alone

a stronger

Parrotia subaequalis prophouse-fall-2027 ranging from coastal Virginia throughFor most of botanical history the genus Parrotia was thought to hold a single species, the Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica) of the Caspian forests. Then came a small Chinese tree with a long and tangled paper trail. A fruiting specimen gathered in Jiangsu Province in 1935 sat in a herbarium drawer until 1960, when the botanist H. T. Chang described the specimen as a witch hazel under the name Hamamelis subaequalis. The living tree, meanwhile, had