Common Name: Japanese snowbell, pink chimes
Family Name: Styracaceae - Silver Bells family
Native Range: Asia
NJ Status: Emerging Stage 0 – Absent or very rare. It is moderately threatening native plant communities.
• Deciduous flowering shrub
• 20 - 30’ tall, as wide as it is tall
• Single trunked
• Mature bark is grey brown with orange fissures
• Simple and alternate
• 1 to 4” long
• Smooth edges
• Dark lush green in the summer yellow to reddish yellow in the fall
• Blooms from end of May into June
• Flower are white or light pink and hang down, bell shaped, 0.75” wide
• Less than an inch long
• 5 petals with yellow stamen
• Clusters of 3 to 6
• Fruit is a small, dry, round structure that hangs from the tree.
• Light whitish green coloring
Roadside, garden, landscaping, forest edge
Yes
• Non-native, similar flowers and leaves to the Japanese Snowbell
• Multi-stemmed
• Smooth orange to yellow-brown bark
• Blooms June to August
• Non-native
• Small tree or shrub reaching 10 - 15’ tall
• Smooth, thin, dark grey-brown bark, no orange fissures
• Glyphosate 3.00%
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• Triclopyr Ester 25% OR Pathfinder II ready-to-use mixture
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• Glyphosate 50%
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