Pinckneya bracteata Precocious Bhutan 'Blue Angel' leaf emerges chartreuse

'Blue Angel' leaf emerges chartreuse and becomes brighter gold much later as the season progresses

Topping the stems are marble-sized buds opening to lovely

We have developed a really nice strain of red-violet flowering hellebores using genetics from the world's top breeders

delightful

grass-like foliage that eventually makes a tight mat in even the worst garden conditions

Pinckneya bracteata Precocious Bhutan 'Blue Angel' leaf emerges chartreuse(aka: Pinckneya pubens) Pinckneya bracteata 'Precocious', a 2020 Plant Delights JLBG introduction is one of those rare woody plants that occasionally creep into our catalog thanks to a special connection. In 2015, Patrick McMillan of the SC Botanical Garden shared some extra seedlings of the Southeast (SC south to Florida) native small tree, Pinckneya bracteata. One of those seedlings began flowering at just over 1' tall, which is highly abnormal.