Photinia 'Kolmavoca' MAGICAL VOLCANO PHOTINIA
size/type
medium-sized shrub,medium-sized shrub
usual height
2-3m
usual width
1,5-2m
leaves
evergreen broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
less showy but noticeable
colour of flowers
blooming time
May-May
location
full to partial sun
soil type
acidic (peaty)
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist (dislikes drought)
USDA zone (lowest)
7 (down to -23°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Description of the plant:
MAGICAL VOLCANO is a new photinia bred by Peter R.Kolster from the Netherlands in 2009. It is a cross between popular Fraser’s hedging photinia and Chinese photinia serratifolia. It is renowned for extremely serrated leaf margins, compact growth, and longer lasting colour of new shoots. It was patented under PP25024P2 in 2014.MAGICAL VOLCANO photinia has ovate, 7-10 cm large, evergreen leaves with conspicuously serrated margins. They emerge striking red and change to garnet red or burgundy red with some coppery-brown tones later. In 4-8 weeks they mature to dark olive green. New leaves emerge 2 or 3 times a year and before winter the whole plant gains coppery red tones until the arrival of warm days of spring when they turn green again. In mid spring older plants produce medium-sized panicles of creamy white flowers.
In Southern Europe it is often grown as a hedging plant. Here in zones 6 we find it a place sheltered from strong, drying winds in winter. It grows moderately to 2-3m tall and can be pruned from early spring until midsummer. It needs moist but well-drained, humus-rich soil and mulching. Provide extra watering in hot summers and also in frost-free periods in the winter if the ground is not frozen. Hardy to about -23°C.
Last update 19-11-2015
SIZES and PRICES
shrub
height 20-30 cm
645 Kč
shrub
height 40-60 cm
680 Kč
shrub
height 40-60 cm
660 Kč
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
