View source for Phil Bendle Collection:Photinia davidiana (Chinese photinia)

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'''Kingdom:''' Plantae<br />
'''(unranked):''' Angiosperms<br />
'''(unranked):''' Eudicots<br />
'''(unranked)''': Rosids<br />
'''Order:''' Rosales<br />
'''Family''': Rosaceae<br />
'''Genus:''' Photinia<br />
'''Species:''' P. davidiana<br />
'''Binomial name''': Photinia davidiana<br />
'''Synomnyn''': Stranvaesia davidiana<br />
'''Common name:''' Chinese Photinia, David's photini

Photinia davidiana is a species of fast-growing, evergreen shrub with a bushy habit. It is native to the west, central and south China, extending over the border to Vietnam. It has been introduced to many countries as a garden plant. It is a close relative to the garden shrub hybrid photinia “Red Robin”.<br />
It has simple, alternate, dark green, leaves which are elliptic to lanceolate and are up to 12cm long and 4.5cm broad. The leaves margins are entire. New leaves emerge a dark, burgundy red in the spring. Before autumn some portion of older foliage inside the plant gains a bright carmine red or an orange colour. In the autumn the leaves at tips of the branches turn deep burgundy red again. <br />
In spring Photinia davidiana has white, hermaphrodite flowers which are up to 1cm across. They appear as panicles which are up to 10cm across. The flowers are pollinated by insects.<br />
In autumn flowering is followed by umbels of small red, pome fruit that persists. 

A Photinia davidiana growing wild in farmland west of Christchurch. <br />
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Fruit turning red late February.<br />
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