Rainbow Drooping Leucothoe
Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Rainbow’
- Size: 3-5’ Tall and Wide
- Growth Habit: Low shrub, spreading, drooping branches
- Growth Rate: Slow
- Light Requirements: Part Sun
- Soil Requirements: Average soils, prefers well drained and slightly acidic
- Appeal: Rainbow Drooping Leucothoe is a great evergreen shrub to add to your landscape. It has gracefully arching branches that hold up its colorfully variegated foliage. Foliage can have shades of green, cream white, and pinks with red stems. It also has pretty drooping white urn shaped flowers in clusters that will bloom in spring. Rainbow Drooping Leucothoe can be used as a hedge or pruned to stay as a low ground cover shrub. North American native plant and deer resistant.