Skimmia japonica
Common name: Japanese skimmia
Family name: Rutaceae
Useful cultivars and selections: 0.6-1.2m
USDA Hardiness Zone: 7
Mature height and spread:
Form: evergreen shrub, dense, rounded
Water use: medium
Soil requirements: moist, acid, high organic soil, part shade to shade
Leaf arrangement: alternate, simple, whorled look, dark green above and yellow-green below
Flower/cone/fruit description(s): creamy-white flowers on male plants are larger and more fragrant than those on female; female has fruit, red
Limitations: plant both male and female to get fruit; the entire plant is poisonous
Suitable uses: hedge; border
Quick ID description: fragrant flower; red fruit; alternate, simple
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