{"id":13190,"date":"2021-07-07T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=13190"},"modified":"2021-07-07T16:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T20:35:23","slug":"%ef%bb%bfsummer-blooming-amur-maackia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2021\/07\/07\/%ef%bb%bfsummer-blooming-amur-maackia\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffSummer Blooming Amur Maackia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Maackia amurense<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amur maackia (<em>Maackia<\/em>) is a small deciduous tree with a broad, rounded canopy. Typically, it grows in cultivation at a slow-to-moderate rate to a height of 20-30 feet (to 60 feet in wild). This compact growing tree is an ideal fit in smaller landscapes. A botanical member of the Pea family (Fabaceae), it grows in the region of the Amur River in Manchuria and Korea and eastern Russia and China (USDA hardiness zones 3 to 7). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compound, odd-pinnate, dark olive green leaves (7-13 leaflets each) are attractive in summer. The deciduous compound leaves emerge silvery-green in spring changing to medium green in summer. Each compound leaf measures 8 to 12 inches long and open grayish-green and matures to dark green.\u00a0 Expect a very slight reddish leaf color change in autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maackia prefers in full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil that is either acidic or alkaline. Its roots enrich the soil by adding nitrogen. It grows in a wide range of soil conditions. Florida horticulturists report that maackia is highly drought tolerant. Maackia has no serious insect or disease problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few landscape trees bloom in early summer.  Its fragrant oft-white pea-like flowers start to open in mid-June (In Tennessee). Blooms are clustered in showy 4 to 6 inch bundles and lightly fragrant flowers are pollinated by bees. Flowers are followed by flat 2-3 inches long seed pods, legume pods look like redbuds (<em>Cercis<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-chinensis--685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-chinensis--685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-chinensis--201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maackia-chinensis--768x1147.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><figcaption>trunk bark of mature maackia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mottled olive-green bark adds to winter interest. Bark\nis copper-brown and starts peeling with age, a winter asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Available Cultivars: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MaacNificent\u00ae <\/strong>(<em>M. amurensis<\/em> &#8216;JFS-Schichtel1&#8217;) &#8211; very cold hardy cultivar (zone 3) with a vase-shaped habit and yellow fall color; grows 30 feet high x 20 feet wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summertime\u2122 <\/strong>&#8211;&nbsp; a more cold hardy cultivar\n(zone 3) selected by University of Minnesota.&nbsp; A round form; grows 15 to\n20 feet high x 12 to 15 feet wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>subsp \u2018Buergeri\u2019<\/strong> &#8211; 20 to 30 feet tall (zone 4 hardy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amur maackia<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amur maackia (Maackia) is a small deciduous tree with a broad, rounded canopy. Typically, it grows in cultivation at a slow-to-moderate rate to a height of 20-30 feet (to 60 feet in wild). This compact growing tree is an ideal fit in smaller landscapes. A botanical member of the Pea family (Fabaceae), it grows in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,747,1319,440,1498,674,645,806,665,1564,551,843,1059,951,729,1321,777,630,706,646,7,113,655,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13193,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions\/13193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}