Deeproot Plant Base Online - Forsythia europaea

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botanical name:
Forsythia europaea

family: Oleaceae

characteristics: shrub
height: 1.80m width: 1.80m
growth rate: medium
growth habit: bushy
leaf colour: green
flower colour: yellow
stem/bark colour: light brown
main period of interest: Spring

poisonous or irritant

growing conditions: full sun, part shade, moist soil, clay soil
prefered soil pH: any
minimum temperature: -20°C
USDA zone: 6 to 9

description:
Bushy deciduous shrub of twiggy habit with opposite, toothed, lance-shaped etleaves. Small bright yellow flowers in early spring on bare branches before the leaves emerge. Not as showy as the cultivated varieties.

cultivation:
Any moderately fertile, moist, well drained soil in full sun or light dappled shade. Easy to grow and not fussy. Prune after flowering, reducing new shoots and cut back some of the old shoots to the base.

propagation:
Greenwood cuttings in late spring or semi-ripe cuttings in late summer.

other notes:
Native to Albania and the only species found wild in Europe. Rarely cultivated.