Xanthoceras sorbifolium Seeds | Yellowhorn
LATIN NAME: Xanthoceras sorbifolium
COMMON NAME: Yellowhorn
Plant Profile
Yellowhorn (Xanthoceras sorbifolium) is a tree in the soapberry family. Yellowhorn flushes with white flowers, each one holding little yellow-and-red centre, over bright green leaves, and the whole tree carries the fresh, open look of the spring garden. It is a tree of open, sunny, deep, well-drained ground. For the small amount of care it requires, the return is remarkable.
Science & Biotechnology
Xanthoceras sorbifolium sits in the soapberry family, a group that keeps botanists, horticulturists and plant breeders busy with questions of classification, adaptation and ornamental potential. For practical purposes the message is encouraging: generations of cultivation have produced plants of predictable, well-mannered garden character.
Uses & Benefits
Yellowhorn brings genuine presence to the garden and earns its keep across the growing season. Yellowhorn is a bright, useful tree of spring garden and study collection. It is a bright, useful tree of open, sunny, deep, well-drained garden. Yellowhorn seeds germinate well in a deep, sandy mix kept lightly moist. Getting it going is easy; keeping it going is easier still.
Yellowhorn is a Chinese oil tree with edible chestnut-flavored seeds and showy spring blossom, its seed oil studied as a functional and biofuel oil.
Growing from Seed
Starting Yellowhorn from seed is simple and satisfying. Surface-sow onto a light, well-drained compost, dust over a thin covering, and keep evenly moist and sunny until the seedlings show. Prick the seedlings out once they are large enough to handle, grow them on in bright light, and plant out when conditions allow.
Our Take
Yellowhorn repays a little patience at sowing time with plenty of garden presence later.
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