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Description. Buxus sempervirens is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing 1 to 9 m (3 to 30 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 20 centimetres (8 in) in diameter (exceptionally to 10 m tall and 45 cm diameter [6]). Arranged in opposite pairs along the stems, the leaves are green to yellow-green, oval, 1.5–3 cm long, and 0.5–1.3 cm broad.
Distribution. East and West Coasts of United States and Canada and Europe. Boxwood blight (also known as box blight or boxwood leaf drop) is a widespread fungal disease affecting boxwoods (box plants), caused by Cylindrocladium buxicola (also called Calonectria pseudonaviculata). The disease causes widespread defoliation and eventual death.
The common name in Australia is the northern yellow boxwood. It occurs in many parts of south-east Asia, Micronesia, and on islands of the Indian Ocean, [2] and has local common names there. Planchonella obovata grows as a bushy-crowned tree reaching a maximum height of 10 to 20 metres (33 to 66 ft). The leaves hairy when young, with upper ...
Its leaves resemble those of boxwood (hence its name). [5] The leaves are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and oval-shaped. [6] They are glossy and minutely toothed, [5] turning red in winter. [4] The evergreen leaves, lacking resin glands, are in sharp contrast to other species of Gaylussacia. [7] Box huckleberry flowers in May and June. [6]
The Balearic boxwood is a monoecious tree or shrub up to three meters high. Its leaves, somewhat larger than those of the common boxwood, are oval and bright, sometimes showing a reddish or yellowish color. [1] It blooms in spring and can be reproduced from seeds or from cuttings.
Buxus. Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box and boxwood. [1][2][3] The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, with the majority of species being tropical ...
Drypetes deplanchei is a tree of eastern and northern Australia. [1][2] It also occurs in New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. The genus is derived from the Greek, dryppa meaning "olive fruit". The species named after Dr. Emile Deplanche, who collected this plant at New Caledonia. Common names include yellow tulip, grey boxwood, white myrtle ...
Buxus. Species: B. microphylla. Binomial name. Buxus microphylla. Siebold & Zucc. Buxus microphylla, the Japanese box or littleleaf box, is a species of flowering plant in the box family found in Japan and Taiwan. [2] It is a dwarf evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and wide.