Japanese StewartiaThis Japanese native looks very similar to our American native, franklinia (Ben Franklin tree), both in growth habit and flowers. Grown for its glamorous white camellia like flowers in mid summer, its neat, rounded shape and stunning bark that exfoliates in strips of gray, orange, and reddish brown once the trunk attains a diameter of 2 3". Serrated leaves emerge bronzy purple in spring, develop nto a dark green by summer and turns red or orange in