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A large shrub, I bought it (as R.potanini) because it had good looking large leaves. I have since seen it
growing at Wisley looking magnificent - and a little unruly. I'm not sure I have given it enough space, and may
have to reconsider this winter while it is still small enough to move. I delayed for a couple of years before realising that it had to be moved, so it was yanked up with a little less dignity than it deserved and replanted on the boundary at the top of the garden. Now it has space to expand I have great hopes for it. I am also hoping that I got the roots up before they grew large enough to produce suckers. Trees and Shrubs online says: "A small deciduous tree, sometimes 20 ft or more high, with a short trunk and a rounded gauntly branched head; branchlets yellowish, downy; winter-buds brown, velvety. Leaves pinnate, varying in size according to the vigour of the plant, ordinarily from 8 to 15 in. long, and composed of seven to thirteen leaflets, between each pair of which the common leaf-stalk is winged. R. chinensis is widely spread in Asia, throughout the Himalaya (from Hazara in the west to Bhutan in the east), Assam, upper Burma, Siam, Indo-China, throughout China to Korea, Japan, and Formosa, and it has also been found in Sumatra. Miller grew the species from seeds received from Paris in 1737, but the plants were destroyed in the winter of 1740, and it was probably not established in cultivation in Britain until the 1870s." |
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