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Mountain Pieris
Latin Name:
Pieris floribunda
location:
primarily North and South Carolina but also found in Virginia and Georgia
The Mountain Pieris, also called in Latin Pieris floribunda, lives around primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia. It can generally be recognized as a broad-leaved evergreen shrub, making it a plant very different from others. In the summer, its foliage is more or less elliptical, evergreen leaves and in the automn its foliage is specially evergreen, so no fall color. The Mountain Pieris (Pieris floribunda) grows flowers that are upright clusters of small, white urn-shaped flowers, about 2" to 4" long and its fruits are more or less small brown capsules. It has a special bark, where we can see gray-brown color on it. An interesting information to note concerning its culture is that does best in partial shade to nearly full sun An inconvenient with the Mountain Pieris can be that can be difficult to transplant and establish A way to identify a Pieris floribunda having its upright flower clusters separate it from
P. japonica
which has pendulous flower clusters.. The Mountain Pieris's propagation method is very special since it is done by seed
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