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Botanical Name: Rhaphiolepis indica
Common Name: Indian Hawthorn

 

Use: Outdoors
Indigenous/Exotic : Exotic
Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
Plant Type : Shrub
Flower Colour : White to pink
Foliage Colour : Dark green /  bronze-red in spring.
Best Season : August to October
Light : Sun or partial-shade
Hardiness : Hardy
Attributes :  
Height (m) : 1.5
Spread (m) : 1.5
    
Notes : The Indian Hawthorn is a tough shrub which is resistant to drought and wind. It produces a pretty show of flowers as well, becoming smothered in sprays of tiny white to pink blossoms from late winter (often a time when little else is in bloom) to spring. It also has shiny dark green foliage with the young spring growth tinged with bronze-red, a good foil for shrubs and smaller plants with variegated yellow or golden leaves, or those with reddish or grey to blue-grey foliage. Other types of Raphiolepis include the very tough, slow-growing, larger Yedda Hawthorn (Raphiolepis umbellata) and hybrids like the low-growing R. indica ‘Fergusonii’, which has pure white flowers, and R. x delacourii with pink flowers -  both of these have somewhat larger flowers than Indian Hawthorn.

 

Tolerant of moderately severe frost, Indian Hawthorn can be grown almost throughout South Africa but it is not really suited to very hot, humid conditions.

 

It can be grown in full sun or partial shade, but prefers a fairly fertile soil. In winter-rainfall regions and dry, inland areas, water in summer. In summer-rainfall regions, it should be watered occasionally in winter and during very long, dry spells in summer.

 

 

 

Rhaphiolepis indica

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Graham road, Pretoria East

Opposite Lombardy Corporate Park

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