Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Sarcococca Lindley [227]

genus_ja:

genus_en: Christmas box, Sweet box

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accepted: Accepted

Family: Buxaceae

family_ja: ツゲ

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distribution_en: W.China to W.Malaysia

description_en: Genus of about 14 species of monoecious, evergreen, sometimes rhizomatous shrubs found in moist, shady places, forest, and thickets from China to the Himalayas and S.E. Asia. They are grown for their foliage, usually fragrant flowers, and berry-like fruits. The leaves are mainly alternate, rarely opposite, entire, and narrowly lance-shaped to broadly ovate or elliptic. Tiny, fragrant, petalless, white or whitish green male and female flowers, 5mm (1/4in) long, are borne in small clusters or spikes in the leaf axils. The male flowers have conspicuous anthers; the females are produced below the males in the inflorescence. Grow as ground cover in a woodland garden, or use as a low, informal hedge. Tolerant of atmospheric pollution, dry shade, and neglect.

hardiness_en: Fully hardy to frost hardy.

cultivation_en:

propagation_en: Sow seed in containers outdoors in autumn or spring. Take semi-ripe cuttings in late summer. Remove suckers in late winter.

pests_en: Trouble free.

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comment:

comment_ja: サルココッカ

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2022-03-09 15:20

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