Golden Tangerine Leaves are a Luminous Landscape Beacon

Park Hill, OK – A peachy keen new introduction, The Rising Sun™ Redbud is destined to light up the landscape with appealing tangerine and peach colored -leaves. This native small tree contributes brilliant, golden-orange heart-shaped foliage all summer with no burning, even in full sun.

The Rising Sun™ is a vigorously growing small tree with a full, rounded shape, whose leaves hold their color into autumn. Spring, a third season of interest, delivers sweet pea-type flowers, rosy-orchid in color. The flowers appear before the foliage in spring and are attractive to bees and butterflies. New foliage is a brilliant rosy-apricot. Even the bark is a smooth tan with a yellowish cast, distinctive from other Redbuds. With a mature height of only 12 feet, The Rising Sun™ is perfect for smaller gardens and in-town neighborhoods as well as for specimen and accent plantings.

Originators Ray and Cindy Jackson have joined the Garden Debut® consortium of plantsmen and the peachy new Cercis canadensis ‘JN2’ selection named The Rising Sun™ will be introduced in 2010. “When I first saw this Redbud I went wild,” enthused Ray Jackson. “Fellow nurserymen have said it is the most outstanding golden Redbud they have ever seen, and I can attest it is vigorous in growth and very heat tolerant.”   

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Statistics Chart for The Rising Sun™ Redbud, Cercis canadensis ‘JN2’, PPAF

Mature Height: 12 feet

Mature Spread: 8 feet

Mature Form: Full, Rounded shape

Growth Rate: Vigorous

Sun Exposure: Full to partial sun

Soil Moisture: Well-drained, Drought resistant

Soil Type: Loam, Sand, Clay

Flower Color: Rosy-orchid

Bloom Time: Spring

Summer Color: Golden tangerine; Rosy-apricot new foliage

Fall Color: Golden orange color holds in fall

Bark Texture: Smooth bark, tan with yellow cast

pH Level: 5.5-7.5

Zones: 5-8

Heredity: US, Ray Jackson, Jackson Nursery

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