{"id":6902,"date":"2014-11-03T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=6902"},"modified":"2014-11-03T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T17:25:54","slug":"bee-bee-tree-tetradium-rarely-seen-in-u-s-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/11\/03\/bee-bee-tree-tetradium-rarely-seen-in-u-s-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Bee Tree (Tetradium) Rarely Seen In U.S. Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beebee Tree (Tetradium daniellii) at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, NY<\/p><\/div>\n

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Smooth Gray Trunk of Beebee Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

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Native to Korea and southwestern China, bee bee tree (Tetradium daniellii<\/i>) is a deciduous tree with a spreading umbrella-shaped habit and rounded canopy\u00a0(USDA hardiness zones 4-8). It was formerly named Evodia daniellii.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bee bee tree typically grows to 25-30 feet tall and wide. In July-August small white flowers (sometimes tinged with\u00a0yellow or pink)\u00a0are flattened clusters (corymbs) up to 6 inches wide. Flowers are highly fragrant and quite showy.\u00a0\u00a0 Summer blooming bee bee tree flowers when few other trees do so and is frequented by honey bees and many other pollinators<\/p>\n

Flowers give way to reddish-purple seed pods that split apart when ripe. Each pod contains 2 shiny, buckshot-like, black seeds. Pods are highly ornamental and remain on the tree from late August to November. The red to black fruits are eagerly\u00a0consumed by birds.<\/p>\n

Lush opposite, pinnately compound leaves resemble ash (Fraxinus spp.<\/i>).\u00a0Individual leaves may be\u00a018 inches long, comprised of 7-11 leaflets, each 2-5 inch long glossy dark green leaflets. Autumn leaf color is lacking; leaves typically fall when green to yellowish-green. Trunk bark is light gray and very smooth.<\/p>\n

Bee bee tree thrives in moist, reasonably fertile, well-drained, mildly acidic soil. Plant it in full sun\u00a0where it grows best, but it\u00a0does tolerate\u00a0\u00a0moderate light shade. A newly planted tree grows rapidly and would make an ideal small lawn tree\u00a0sited near a deck or patio. It is\u00a0pest and disease trouble-free and\u00a0grows rapidly in its early years.<\/p>\n

Current availability of bee bee tree\u00a0is from\u00a0on-line\u00a0specialty nurseries only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  Native to Korea and southwestern China, bee bee tree (Tetradium daniellii) is a deciduous tree with a spreading umbrella-shaped habit and rounded canopy\u00a0(USDA hardiness zones 4-8). It was formerly named Evodia daniellii. Bee bee tree typically grows to 25-30 feet tall and wide. In July-August small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,956,1177,747,749,645,1012,791,843,1059,729,630,706,646,7,850,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902"}],"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=6902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6939,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6902\/revisions\/6939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}