A group of Japanese pagoda trees flower July into August east of Pearson Hall.
The Japanese pagoda tree
is a wide-branching, highly ornamental tree with a rounded crown. This species
is one of the last of the larger trees to flower in the north, producing
large, upright panicles of mildly fragrant, creamy-white, pea-like flowers.
This valuable ornamental is not used in the urban landscape as often as
it ought to be. It is tolerant of pollution and, casts a light shade, allowing
turf grasses to grow up to the trunk.
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