{"id":574,"date":"2011-04-27T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-01-07T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T18:06:50","slug":"take-flight-with-the-unique-dove-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/04\/27\/take-flight-with-the-unique-dove-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Flight With The Unique Dove Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dove tree<\/p><\/div>\n

Up for a challenge. Dove tree (Davidia involucrata<\/em>) is a medium-size tree from China.\u00a0Mature dove trees\u00a0are 30-40 feet in height and 20-30 feet in width. A young tree exhibits a pyramidal form and forms\u00a0a rounded canopy at maturity. The coarsely textured 4 – 5 inch circular leaves are bright green with\u00a0no significant\u00a0fall color,\u00a0dropping either pale green\u00a0to brown.<\/p>\n

In early May dove tree in bloom is\u00a0an awesome\u00a0sight to behold.\u00a0 All attention is focused on the two uneven white bracts, one 7- inches long and 4- inches wide and a second\u00a0shorter 4- inches long anf\u00a02- inches wide bract. A slight breeze rustling past\u00a0the two white bracts creates an illusion of dove wings aflutter, earning such pseudonyms like “handkerchief tree” and “ghost tree”. The\u00a0true \u00be- inch wide dome flowers are insignificant.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily,\u00a0you must wait ten or more years for dove tree to bloom the first time (and not every year). \u2018Sonoma’ is a new cultivar which flowers reliably within 2 – 3 years after planting and does so annually. \u00a0As the tree ages, its scaly orange- brown bark offers minor winter interest.<\/p>\n

Dove tree need to be properly sited\u00a0in a\u00a0moist well-drained loamy soil in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA hardiness zones 6 and 7).\u00a0Guard against extreme summer heat and winter cold blasts and irrigate during summer dry spells.\u00a0 Disease and pest problems are as rare as dove trees.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dove tree may be purchased from specialty plant nurseries on the internet or from mail order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up for a challenge. Dove tree (Davidia involucrata) is a medium-size tree from China.\u00a0Mature dove trees\u00a0are 30-40 feet in height and 20-30 feet in width. A young tree exhibits a pyramidal form and forms\u00a0a rounded canopy at maturity. The coarsely textured 4 – 5 inch circular leaves are bright green with\u00a0no significant\u00a0fall color,\u00a0dropping either pale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[647,630,7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}