| Description | A small to medium tree with pink flowers in the early spring |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (hal-EE-zhee-uh)(mawn-tih-KOLE-uh) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 5-9 |
| Sunlight | sun to shade |
| Moisture | average to moist, not tolerant of draught |
| Soil & Site | prefers rich, organic, well drained, ph 5-6, tolerant of other soils |
| Flowers | pink, bell shaped, 2-5 flowers per cluster, downward pointing, end of April to early May, along last years branches on the previous season's wood |
| Fruit | 4-winged drupe |
| Leaves | simple, alternate serrated leaves, green changing to yellow in the fall |
| Roots | fiborous |
| Dimensions | reaches 20-40 feet tall with a spread of 15-30 feet |
| Propagation | softwood cuttings |
| Misc Facts | The genus "Halesia" is named after Stephen Hales, an 18th century English scientist |
| Author's Notes | The Mountain Silver Bells and the Pink Mountain Silver Bells that I have observed over the last 10 years are all growing in sites where they get some direct sunlight and are in dabbled to full shade for most of the day. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) #03-The Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs (Hillier Nursery), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #181-Native Trees for North America (Guy Sternberg) |
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