Forsythia 'Fontanna'
Sponsor
Kindly sponsored by
Monique Gudgeon, Sculpture by the Lakes
Credits
Owen Johnson (2022)
Recommended citation
Johnson, O. (2022), 'Forsythia 'Fontanna'' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Common Names
- Fountain Forsythia
Other taxa in genus
- Forsythia 'Arnold Dwarf'
- Forsythia europaea
- Forsythia 'Ford Freeway'
- Forsythia giraldiana
- Forsythia 'Gold Splash'
- Forsythia 'Golden Times'
- Forsythia 'Happy Centennial'
- Forsythia 'Helios'
- Forsythia × intermedia
- Forsythia japonica
- Forsythia 'Kanárek'
- Forsythia × kobendzae
- Forsythia koreana
- Forsythia likiangensis
- Forsythia 'Little Renee'
- Forsythia 'Maluch'
- Forsythia × mandshurica
- Forsythia 'Meadowlark'
- Forsythia nakaii
- Forsythia 'New Hampshire Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Gold'
- Forsythia 'Northern Sun'
- Forsythia ovata
- Forsythia 'Paulina'
- Forsythia 'Princeton Gold'
- Forsythia 'Robusta'
- Forsythia saxatilis
- Forsythia 'Spring Beauty'
- Forsythia 'Spring Gold'
- Forsythia suspensa
- Forsythia 'Tremonia'
- Forsythia × variabilis
- Forsythia 'Verfors'
- Forsythia viridissima
- Forsythia 'Winterthur'
- Forsythia 'Yatgold'
USDA Hardiness Zone 4
RHS Hardiness Rating H6
A hardy hybrid of Polish origin, with very large flowers (Hatch 2021–2022) and widely arching twigs. It parentage is given as F. × intermedia ‘Vitellina’ × F. ovata by Dirr (2009), though it is duplicated in Hatch’s Cultivars of Woody Plants (Hatch 2021–2022) as a clone of F. viridissima.
Fontanna means ‘fountain’ in Polish, but the name often erroneously appears as ‘Fontana’.