In the urban landscape
The pagoda tree is one of the best large street trees for a warming climate: it flowers in high summer when bees have little else, tolerates drought and paving, and its light crown casts a bright, never oppressive shade.
Sophora japonica
Japanese pagoda tree
Elegant summer flowering and symbolic value: often planted in public and historic settings.
- Habit
- Small tree
- Diameter
- 10/20 cm
- Height
- 8/12 m
- Availability
- 189
Did you know?
In Beijing a specimen from the 1400s is still revered as the "imperial tree"; in China the pagoda tree marked the tombs of high dignitaries and its buds dyed fine silks yellow.
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