Bigleaf Storax - Styrax grandifolia

Styracaceae - Storax Family
"A Year With the Trees" - Tree Number 87
Bigleaf Storax Tree
Styrax grandifolfia

Spring

The Bigleaf Storax - Styrax grandifolia

The Bigleaf Storax - Styrax grandifolia

This Bigleaf Storax lives at the Asheville Botanical Gardens on the Fern and Moss Trail by the ancient rock. This green leaves are fully grown and the flowers are still on the tree.

Summer

I will get out and photograph the Summer tree soon.

Fall 

I will get out and photograph the Fall tree this coming Fall.  Please check back.

Winter

The Bigleaf Storax - Styrax grandifolia

This Bigleaf Storax lives at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org

The tree grows next to a rock that is probably over 40 million years old, according to a local professor of geology.  The profile of the tree against the ancient rock looks quite haunting.

The Bigleaf Storax - Styrax grandifolia

The Champion Bigleaf Storax Trees

One of the North Carolina champion Bigleaf Storax trees lives at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville.  In fact, it is my favorite Bigleaf Storax.  On the North Carolina Forest Service Website it is called the Bigleaf Snowbell, another name for this tree.  http://www.ncforestservice.gov/Urban/tree_detail.asp?Tree_ID=558

My favorite Bigleaf Storax Tree

My favorite Bigleaf Storax is the tree I photographed in this blog.  It lives at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville.

Plant a Bigleaf Storax Tree

The Bigleaf Storax tree have beautiful white flowers that provide pollen to bees and other pollinators.  The leaves and seeds provide food for mammals and seed-eating birds.

For the love of the trees,
Becky

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