{"id":277,"date":"2010-09-27T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=277"},"modified":"2010-10-06T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:17:15","slug":"franklinia-native-tree-lost-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/09\/27\/franklinia-native-tree-lost-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklinia &#8211; Native Tree Lost in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franklinia (<em>Franklinia alatamaha<\/em>) is a wonderful small tree or  large multi-trunked shrub with fragrant white camellia- like flowers.  Franklinia is related to world-class flowering shrubs like camellia and  stewartia. Its white 3 &#8211; 3 \u00bd inch camellia-like flowers appear from  early August thru late September.<\/p>\n<p>Franklinia is winter hardy in  the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6-7).  Its fibrous root  system prefers a well-drained, richly organic, and acidic soil much like  azaleas and rhododendrons. Don\u2019t subject to extended summer droughts or  frigid drying winter winds.<\/p>\n<p>Fall color is respectable with  autumnal hues of red, orange and burgundy.  The bark on a young tree is  distinctively striped, and the main branches become fissured with age.<\/p>\n<p>The  species was discovered by plant explorer John Bartram and his son  William growing along the Alatamaha River in southeastern Georgia in  1765. Natural populations are now extinct. All franklinia trees growing  today are descendants of the Bartrams\u2019 collected seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Franklinia is a finicky grower, but very much worth the challenge. A deadly fungal root disease, <em>Phytophthora cinnamoni<\/em>,  may have led to its demise in nature, is its Achilles\u2019 heel. A 2-3 week  long invasion of Japanese beetles in August may shorten individual  bloom life by half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklinia (Franklinia alatamaha) is a wonderful small tree or large multi-trunked shrub with fragrant white camellia- like flowers. Franklinia is related to world-class flowering shrubs like camellia and stewartia. Its white 3 &#8211; 3 \u00bd inch camellia-like flowers appear from early August thru late September. Franklinia is winter hardy in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,618,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}