Dwarf Trees

[xylemxorro]

Anyone know of any trees for Florida/zone 9 that will not get above 20'? I know of one, which is Magnolia.

 

[jerseygirl]

Dwarf Ambarella Tree
(Spondias cytherea)

Caesalpinia Dwarf Poniciana

Guaiacum Lignum Vitae

the above are listed in the book below:


check out the book "flowering trees of florida", by Mark stebbins, there are several listed

 

[xylemxorro]

Thanks! I knew there were more, but just drawing a blank at the time.

 

[Tino]

Go to this website and use the selection tool

http://orb.at.ufl.edu/FloridaTrees/selectiondetail.htm

I ran it and came up with 117 trees between 15-25 feet that grew in 9a/b.
Once the list is generated you can click on the tree name for full details and pictures. Great tool.

 

[Cyrus1254]

Xylem I am sorry but I dont know of any magnolias that dont get less than 20 feet tall and I am here in the Carolinas and I was out today looking at them and they are all about 30 -- 40 feet tall at the average.

 

[xylemxorro]

Thanks for all the info! We ended up going w/ the Magnolia "Little Gem" variety and a few multi-stemmed Crape Myrtles for color contrast.

Planted along red brick wall entrance to a sub-division

 

[mdvaden]

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Thanks for all the info! We ended up going w/ the Magnolia "Little Gem" variety and a few multi-stemmed Crape Myrtles for color contrast.

Planted along red brick wall entrance to a sub-division

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I might have suggested those, but I pruned crape myrtles both in Georgia (Savannah) and in Oregon that were over 20 feet tall.

Little Gem M. will easily reach 20'. Haven't seen one that high yet, but I know if I can buy one for only $80 and its already 9 to 10 feet to the tip, its going to reach 30 feet plus someday.

Unless its pruned to keep it under 20'.

At least those are fairly slow growing trees.

There's one called a Chitalpa (not Catalpa) that appears to grow as slow if not slower than the Little Gem M..

 

[xylemxorro]

Mucho Gracias!