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| Botanical Name: |
Wisteria sinensis
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| Sounds like: |
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| Common Name: |
Chinese Wisteria
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| Family Name: |
FABACEAE
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| Genus: |
Wisteria
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| species |
sinensis
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| Name Derivation |
G: After Caspar Wistar, American Professor of Anatomy; S: Lat. sinensis - From China.
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| Growth Habit: |
Deciduous climber
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| Dimensions: |
30-35 cm above a horizontal surface x 8-12m
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| Flower: |
Blue-violet pea-shaped flowers, in dense pendulous raceme to 30cm long in Sept- Oct before the leaves appear.
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| Climate: |
Tolerant of full or partial shade a variety of soils but must be well-drained and needs plenty of water during flowering. Frost hardy.
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| Fruit: |
Explosive, velvety pods (legume).
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| Propagation: |
Seed, cuttings.
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| Horticulture Use: |
For fences, trellises, pergolas if a strong support is installed. Can be used as a bonsai or trained as a weeping standard.
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| Culture & Maintenance: |
Prune in winter to a new growth bud and again just after flowering. Needs to be trained to be grown as a tree or shrub. It can become destructive when allowed to climb into roof gutters and onto other plants. Best if trained over a pergola.
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| Foliage: |
Compound, odd pinnate, alternate, dk green above, 7-13 ovate leaflets 20cm.
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