Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens since several unrelated camellias circulate

since several unrelated camellias circulate under the name 'Apple Blossom

and in traditional Chinese medicine the dried immature fruit and peel

Perfect for a shaded rock garden

drought-tolerant once established

soft-textured juvenile-foliage form with an unusual and well-documented history

Chitalpa tashkentensis Brookgreen Gardens since several unrelated camellias circulateChitalpa tashkentensis is a plant with a passport, an intergeneric hybrid that pairs the American desert willow, Chilopsis linearis, with a catalpa, and carries the frilled trumpet flowers of one parent on the willowy, drought hardy frame of the other. The name itself is a splice, Chilopsis joined to Catalpa, while tashkentensis records the birthplace, the botanical garden at Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, where the cross was raised in the 1960s. From that