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Bronze Beauty Cleyera
Ternstroemia gymnanthera 'Conthery'
Also called bronze beauty
Bronze Beauty Cleyera blooms from April through June.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Bronze Beauty Cleyera
Plant it in part shade. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 7–10. Expect it to reach about 9 ft tall and 5.5 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 5 years (a house reading).
Pets
- No toxic listing found for dogs and cats in the sources we check.
Lists differ and none is complete. If a pet eats a plant and seems unwell, call a veterinarian or a pet poison helpline.
No toxicity note is on file for Bronze Beauty Cleyera. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Bronze Beauty Cleyera
Plant Bronze Beauty Cleyera in early spring as soon as the soil is workable, or in early fall at least six weeks before your first frost, so roots establish in cool weather. In zone 8, the middle of its hardy zones 7 to 10, spring means February to April and fall means September or October. Once settled, it blooms from April to June.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 8, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 8 in February. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Bronze Beauty Cleyera get?
9 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult5.5 ftwideSee Bronze Beauty Cleyera in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Bronze Beauty Cleyera
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Space Bronze Beauty Cleyera about 5.5 ft apart, center to center, so each plant has room to reach its full width.
Add Bronze Beauty Cleyera to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Bronze Beauty Cleyera's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 10 published sources on October 12, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources.
- US plant patent (Google Patents)US Plant Patent PP11,735 (Google Patents), James Bryan Berry for Plant...height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, bloom months and color, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- southernlivingplants.comSouthern Living Plant Collectionheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and trait tags
- The Tree Centerheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and trait tags
- Plant Addictsheight, spread, hardiness zones, water, bloom months and color and soil
- NC State ExtensionGardener Plant Toolboxsun, water, trait tags, soil, diseases and toxicity
- University of Florida IFASExtension, EDIS FP575sun, water, soil and pests
- southernlivingplants.comSouthern Living Plant Collection, 2015 Bronze Beauty fact sheetheight, spread and water
- Internet Archive (archived page)Auburn University Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 66...diseases
- ipps.orgAuburn University and USDA-ARS, Murphy et al., Combined Proceedings In...height
- nature.comScientific Reports 6, 25210 (2016), Marble et al.; Auburn University,...height
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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