Illicium floridanum 'Gray Ghost' cercis chuniana much more compact growth habit

much more compact growth habit and darker pink flowers

Camellia japonica 'Elegans Chinese' has red

The foliage is green and is similar to 'Mikawa Yatsubusa' but rolls slightly upward adding a unique texture with a tightly layered shingling habit that makes trees in the family so popular

The shorter ones are more multi trunked and taller are more single stemmed (higher branched)

SIZE:  10-15' tall and 8-10' wide

Illicium floridanum 'Gray Ghost' cercis chuniana much more compact growth habitIllicium floridanum 'Gray Ghost' (Florida anise, purple anise) has clusters of white tinged pink flowers in the spring and often reblooms throughout the summer with pewter gray leaves with irregular white margins. Illicium floridanum 'Gray Ghost' is one of the most outstanding plants we grow in our top five favorite plants due to its amazing, variegated pewter gray foliage and alien like "starfish" shaped white flowers with an almost pearlescent pale