Photinia integrifolia Check with George and red-purple

and red-purple

That tends to end the conversation

and heterophyllus means variable-leaved

creamy-white to greenish blooms brushed with maroon and aging to pink

Every sweetbay carries the same quiet gifts

Photinia integrifolia Check with George and red-purplePhotinia integrifolia is a handsome broadleaf evergreen, a small tree or large shrub of the rose family, widespread through the hills of southern and southeastern Asia, from the Himalayas and the Western Ghats of India east into Southeast Asia, yet virtually unknown in American gardens. A relative of the familiar Chinese photinia (Photinia serrulata), the species carries the same glossy, leathery foliage but with untoothed, entire margined leaves, the