PlantsTrees
Katsura
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Zone 6a garden plant. Hardy through a Chicago winter unless the note says to pot it.
Heart-shaped leaves and a caramel smell in fall
ModerateTrees
- Light
- Full sun–part shade
- Moisture
- Medium–moist
- Mature size
- 30–50 ft
- Spacing
- 20–30 ft
- Bloom or harvest
- Foliage; fall scent
- How it spreads
- Tree
- What to buy
- Container or balled-and-burlapped. It wants water while young.
- When to plant
- Plant April.
In the design
No showy flower. You plant it for the leaves and the fall smell. A dry spell the first two summers is what kills it, not the winter.
