
Japanese Larch
- Botanical Name
- Larix kaempferi
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 7
- Height
- 70 to 90 feet
- Width
- 25 to 40 feet
- Flowers
- Female flowers are .5 inch long and reddish, male flowers are smaller, yellow and catkin-like along the same twigs
- Fruit
- Cone: small, round, 1 to 1.5 inches, scales are curved back (reflexed) and form a rosette in appearance, persisting throughout winter
- Fall Color
- Gold
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Easily transplanted when dormant
- Well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soil is best, but can tolerate pooly drained soils
- Intolerant of hot, dry or shady sites
- Problems
- Larch case-bearer, cankers, rusts, larch sawfly, Japanese beetles
- Varieties
- Diana - pyramidal habit with contorted and twisted new growth
- Blue Haze - glaucous blue foliage
- Blue Dwarf - short, blue-green needles, red shoots, compact shrub
- Pendula - weeping form
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