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- Japanese Yellow Rose, Japanese Kerria (Kerria Japonica)
Japanese Yellow Rose, Japanese Kerria (Kerria Japonica)
The robust Japanese Yellow Rose or Japanese Kerria is an expansive, upright bush growing to heights of 1.5 - 2.0m. Also forms flowering hedges. The golden yellow blossoms appear from April onwards. This bush produces suckers.
Leaves
Ovate to lance-like leaves, alternate, in two rows, with long pointed tip, double serrated edge and rounded base. Fresh green above, pale green below. 3-6cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, leaf stem 0.5-1cm long. Yellow autumn colouring.
Flowers
Flowering period IV-VI. Golden yellow dish-like blossoms with 5 petals each, approx. 3cm wide, of particular ornamental value. Blossoms are solitary or in small clusters, usually with leafy short terminal shoots.
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Application
Flowering bush, gardens, preliminary plants, flowering hedges, for planting in groups, parks
Native regions
Eastern Asia
Location parameters
Light: sunny to semi-shady; soil type: sandy to loamy; nutrient concentration: normal to high; pH value of the soil: slightly acid to slightly alkaline; soil: fresh to moist.
Demands
Only hardy in mild locations; intolerant of soil compaction; will not tolerate persistently high groundwater levels; frost-hardy; not fume-hardy.
Growth
1.5 - 2.0m high, 1.5-2m in diameter
Leaves
Ovate to lance-like leaves, alternate, in two rows, with long pointed tip, double serrated edge and rounded base. Fresh green above, pale green below. 3-6cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, leaf stem 0.5-1cm long. Yellow autumn colouring.
Flowers
Flowering period IV-VI. Golden yellow dish-like blossoms with 5 petals each, approx. 3cm wide, of particular ornamental value. Blossoms are solitary or in small clusters, usually with leafy short terminal shoots.
Fruits
Glossy black-brown stone fruit, 0.4-0.5cm in diameter. Round to ovate shape, rarely fruiting, with one seed.
Bark
Yellow-green or green bark, smooth and very attractive. Branches are green or pale green, with furrowed surface, round cross-section, sometimes also slightly edged.
Roots
Surface-rooting, suckering.