Peking Lilac
Syringa pekinensis

Height: 15-20'
Habit: upright arching, open

Landscape Value:

A small tree or large shrub, it nicely fits into a typical home landscape. It can be grown with either a single trunk or as a multistemmed tree. It has nice late-spring flowers and shiny, coppery, exfoliating bark. Cold-tolerant and able to withstand dry urban soils, the Peking Lilac makes an excellent plant for a variety of midwestern garden uses.

Seasonal Characteristics:

• Summer: Nice flowers are yellowish-white in 3-6" long panicles in late spring and early summer. Smooth, dark-green leaves, the Peking lilac has a finer texture than Japanese tree lilac because of smaller leaves and stems.
  
  
• Fall: Color is not showy.
  
  
• Winter: Its handsome, shiny, copper-colored, exfoliating bark with prominent horizontal lenticels gives it the appearance of a cherry tree.

Points of Interest:

Points of Interest: . The Chicagoland Grows program offers a good cultivar, 'Morton' (China Snowä). Although it can be hard to find in the nursery trade, the species is being advocated by plant enthusiasts.

Native Range:

Japan.

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