Parrotia persica
Common name: 
Persian Parrotia
Persian Ironwood
Pronunciation: 
par-RO-ti-a PER-si-ka
Family: 
Hamamelidaceae
Genus: 
Parrotia
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Broadleaf deciduous tree/shrub, 20-50 ft (6-15 m) high, rounded, upright, wide spreading branches, often with several trunks.  Bark exfoliating, producing a mosaic of green, white and brown.  Leaves alternate, simple, 6-12 cm long by 2.5-6 cm wide, oval to obovate-oblong, conspicuous stipules, coarsely crenate-dentate above the middle, undulate, (shape resembles Hamamelis), dark green in summer; yellow, orange to brilliant red in fall.  Flowers without petals (apetalous), have showy red stamens, appear before leaves.  Fruit is a brown, 2-valved capsule.
  • Sun to light shade.  Prefers well-drained, slightly acid, loam soils.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 5    Native to Iran, Iraq
  • Parrotia: after the German naturalist, F.W. Parrot. persica: of Persia (Iran)
  • Oregon State Univ. campus: in front of Gilkey Hall
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    young trees in a landscape, early fall

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