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Dodonaea viscosa 'Purpurea' (Purple-leafed Hop-bush) - This rapid growing, evergreen shrub reaches 12 to 16 anxiety tall and about as wide - more upright when immature - spreading out with historic period. Narrow bronzy-green iv inch long leaves turn purple with cooler conditions. Tolerates some shade but color is better if grown in total sun. Tiny green flowers in clusters mid-summer followed past chocolate-brown maple-similar seed capsules in late summertime. Provide a well-draining soil, drought tolerant once established only looks best with occasional deep water. We have listed this plant as cold hardy to about x-15� F but were recently notified of a young planting that succumbed after temperatures reached 16� F in Los Alamos, California during the January 2007 freeze. It is an ideal plant for use as a specimen or as an informal hedge or screen. Prune for structure in fall and wintertime and tolerant of shearing during the growing flavour. This species has an incredibly broad cosmopolitan distribution - it is considered native throughout the southwest US and northern Mexico but varieties and subspecies are found throughout the torrid zone and sub-torrid zone including Hawaii, New Zealand and all of Australian states and territories, where it grows in a wide range of habitats. According to Lawrence Metcalf in his The Cultivation of New Zealand Trees and Shrubs (Reed Methuen Publishers, 1987), this 'Purpurea' selection was discovered in the early 1890s by Mrs Thomas Wilkins, a keen eyed gardener who establish it growing along the Wairau River nearly Marlborough, located near the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand. She nerveless seeds of the plant and grew it in her garden until a Christchurch nurseryman acquired seed and introduced information technology into the New Zealand nursery trade where information technology was called Regal Ake Ake. It is considered a color-sport that sporadically occurs in wild populations and can also revert to dark-green. Information technology is nevertheless oftentimes produced from seed in the nursery trade merely resulting plants progeny often range in color from green statuary, through ruddy and majestic to nighttime purple. Our plants are cutting grown from a particularly nice dark seedling grown constitute that we selected at our plant nursery and are a compatible dark reddish majestic. The name of the genus honors Rembert Dodoens, a 16th Century Flemish botanist and the specific epithet is from the Latin word 'viscosus' meaning sticky in reference to the sometimes sticky leaves. The information that is presented on this page is based on research we have conducted about this plant in our library and from reliable online sources. We also consider observations nosotros accept made of it in the nursery's garden and in other gardens we have visited, as well how information technology performs in our nursery crops out in the field. Nosotros comprise comments that nosotros receive from others as well and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if they know of cultural data that would aid others in growing Dodonaea viscosa 'Purpurea'.