Red Diamond Loropetalum
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum ‘Shang-Red’ · a red-leaf loropetalum
A compact fringe flower with dark burgundy leaves that keep their colour all year and deep red, fringe-like flowers in early spring, with more scattered through summer and fall. It's a handsome specimen, hedge or foundation shrub. Give it acid, well-drained soil and some afternoon shade; alkaline soil yellows it.
- Mature size
- 5.5 × 5 ft
- 1.7 × 1.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–10b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Red Diamond Loropetalum at its mature size
A mature Red Diamond Loropetalum grows 5 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Red Diamond Loropetalum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Feb
Dense evergreen burgundy-purple foliage, no flowers.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Fringe-like ruby red flowers all over the purple leaves.
Growing Red Diamond Loropetalum
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Southeast Asia
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Red Diamond Loropetalum, that’s about 5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Red Diamond Loropetalum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other loropetalums
Purple Pixie Loropetalum
Purple Daydream Loropetalum
Purple Diamond LoropetalumRed Diamond LoropetalumAll drawn to the same scale.