Seven-son flower
Heptacodium miconioides Rehder
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 2.7 m
Caprifoliaceae
Formerly Heptacodium jasminoides
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.0 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–20 ft; Wikipedia 4–9 m
- Spread
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -31.9 °C (USDA zone 4b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -28.9 °C; Wikipedia -35 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 七子花
- Simplified Chinese
- 七子花
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Heptacodium miconioides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.