The Dawes Arboretum

Common name: swamp cyrilla, titi

Family: Cyrillaceae (cyrilla family)

Distribution: s.e. United States to South America

Habitat: Bottomlands, swamps, stream margins, streamheads and baygalls, acidic seepage bogs, peat-based pocosins, Carolina bays, cypress-gum depressions in pine savannas, wet flatwoods; 0-200 m

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Hardiness: USDA Zone 6

Life form: Deciduous shrub/Subshrub

Comments: A semi-evergreen to deciduous shrub in colder winters. It has been in our collections since 1981. Foliage is dark green above, shiny green beneath on twisting branches. Its habit is rather open and irregular. In central Ohio it's proven to be shrubby growing only about 6' tall and wide. Grows best in moist or moist but well-drained, acid soil enriched with organic matter. The flowers are white, produced in June, fragrant and overall provide a nice effect. Good massed in the shrub border or naturalistic landscape and along stream or pond.