Name

Notes

L. styraciflua 'Aureo Marginata'

Gammon

Distinct plant with marginal gold variegation. Tree about eight years old and 10ft tall. Different to 'Golden Treasure'. Origin unknown.

L. styraciflua 'Aurora'

Windsor; Starborough

Alphons van der Bom, Oudenbosch, The Netherlands 1977 catalogue. Bright yellow variegated foliage and pink autumn colour (Santamour).

Rare and Skylark Nursery, California describes autumn colour as a technicolor sequence of yellow, orange, red and purple. (Gammon)

Neither plant had variegated foliage so both simply forms of L. styraciflua.

L. styraciflua 'Burgundy'

Windsor; Gammon

Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, California, USA 1963. Deep green leaves turn burgundy in autumn and hold on tree for a long time. (Arnoldia 29)

Leaves five-lobed and fairly deeply cut. Young foliage tinted purple; all autumn foliage purple late in season and hold on tree until December. As 'Burgundi' (Adeline).

Habit narrow (Gammon)

Deepest colour of all seen and holds leaves longer than most other cultivars.

Windsor plant had not yet changed colour

L. styraciflua 'Festeri'

Wisley (W943634);Hilliers; Starborough

Hazelwood Bros. Epping, New South Wales, Australia catalogue 1947 - holds rich autumn colour right through mid-winter. Named for Mr Fetser, gardener at Kenmore Hospital, Goulburn who first recognised the value of the tree (Santamour).

Wisley plant from Kew with late autumn colour of red/copper/bronze. 6 years old and fairly slow growing.

L. styraciflua 'Festival'

Hilliers; Wisley (W965027

Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, California, USA 1964. Narrow upright habit, rapid growth; a festival of light, bright shades. Discovered in yard of Paul Lee, Saratoga (Santamour).

Tall narrow crown with autumn leaves golden touched with apricot or peach (Arnoldia 29)

Leaves clear during summer with particularly luminous colours in autumn in tones of yellow, pink. Apricot. Habit upright (Adeline)

Pyramidal with narrow head, upright growth, orange/red autumn colour (Wisley)

L. styraciflua 'Golden Treasure'

Hilliers;

Duncan and Davies, New Plymouth, New Zealand catalogue 1974. Raised in Australia. Leaves edged gold and in autumn margin changes to cream to white while dark green centre turns burgundy and paler green parts of leaf become orange and pink (Santamour)

Slow growing, stunted, gnarled habit with very corky twigs.

L. styraciflua 'Gum Ball' syn. 'Globosum' (Adeline) and 'Globe' (Esveld)

Hilliers; Starborough

Discovered by Hieram B Stubblefield, Forest Nursery, McMinnville, Tennessee. Thought to have been introduced 1965 but earliest listing in 1970/71. Bush-like growth, slow growing with lots of small erect stems (Santamour)

In habit looks like L. orientalis. Hillier plant colours late.

May be top-grafted to produce a lollipop-head tree. Fruitless. Leaves can remain green into early winter (Gammon)

Note: spelling is registered with IRA at Arnold Arboretum as two words

Compact plant forming a sort of ball, ideal for a small garden with lots of colour tones in autumn (Adeline)

Dense shrubby habit with long lasting leaves turning orange-red and purple. (Hillier Manual)