Botanical Name: Sapindus saponaria
Common Name: Southern soapberry
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character partially deciduous
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape rounded, wide-spreading tropical tree with rough, flaking bark on trunk and major limbs
Height 20-25'
Spread 20-25'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade
Soil any soil except very heavy clay
Hardiness some frost (zones)
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnately compound, alternate, leaflets 7-9 usually elliptic – base oblique, usually pubescent beneath
Flowers small white flowers in terminal panicles
Fruit 3/4" glossy round orange-brown drupe
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
small shade tree or street tree – useful in small, informal landscapes or as a lawn tree
 
Landscape Care:
Watering average watering, tolerates lawn watering or drought
Fertilizing none afterplanting
Pruning thin occasionally - tree tends to produce brittle wood
Pests/Diseases none
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Tropical America
Family: Sapindaceae

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