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It is a compact shrub with an erect habit that can grow into a medium-sized tree. Its evergreen, oval leaves are dark green but crimson red when young, especially in early spring. Its flowers are small, with five petals, united in large white inflorescences. They bloom at the end of spring. It can reach a height of 5 meters and a diameter of 5 ...
Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to North and Central America and the Caribbean. Its common names include southern wax myrtle, southern bayberry, candleberry, bayberry tree, and tallow shrub. It has uses in the garden and for candlemaking, as well as a medicinal plant.
Streptopus amplexifolius ( twistedstalk, [1] clasping twistedstalk, [1] claspleaf twistedstalk, [1] white twisted-stalk, or watermelon berry) is a species of flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, native to North America, Europe and Asia. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40–100 cm tall, with alternate, oblong-lanceolate leaves ...
Christmasberry. Christmasberry (also Christmas berry or Christmas-berry) can refer to any one of several shrubs or small trees, as well as their colorful fruit: Ardisia crenata, native to Asia and Australia. Crossopetalum ilicifolium. Lycium carolinianum (Carolina desert-thorn, family Solanaceae), a boxthorn native to subtropical North America.
Callicarpa americana. Callicarpa americana, commonly called the American beautyberry, is an open-habitat, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards. American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.
G. procumbens is a small, low-growing shrub, typically reaching 10–15 cm (4–6 in) tall. The leaves are evergreen, elliptic to ovate, 2–5 cm ( –2 in) long and 1–2 cm ( – in) broad, with a distinct oil of wintergreen scent. The flowers are pendulous, with a white, sometimes pink-tinged, [3] bell-shaped corolla with five teeth at the ...
Syzygium cordatum is an evergreen, water-loving tree, which grows to a height of 8–15 m. This tree is often found near streams, on forest margins or in swampy spots. The leaves are elliptic to circular, bluish green on top and a paler green below. Young leaves are reddish. The white to pinkish fragrant flowers are borne in branched terminals ...
Juniperus communis berries vary from 4 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 inch) to 12 millimetres (1 ⁄ 2 inch) in diameter; other species are mostly similar in size, though some are larger, notably J. drupacea (20–28 mm or 3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 in). The berries are green when young and mature to purple-black over about 18 months in most species ...
Lam. ex Juss. [1] Dianella is a genus of about forty species of flowering plants in the monocot family Asphodelaceae, commonly known as flax lilies. [2] Plants in this genus are tufted herbs with more or less linear leaves and bisexual flowers with three sepals more or less similar to three petals and a superior ovary, the fruit a berry.
Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies ), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Several species are cultivated as ...