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H2- Plant ID #2. Aucuba japonica. Japanese Aucuba Foliage: evergreen; simple, lustrous, leathery leaves; 3 to 8" long; rounded green stems Flower: rare purple male flowers Height: 6 to 10 feet Spread: 4 to 6 feet Form: Dense upright rounded shrub Leaf Arrangement: opposite
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Aucuba japonica • Japanese Aucuba • Foliage: evergreen; simple, lustrous, leathery leaves; 3 to 8" long; rounded green stems • Flower: rare purple male flowers • Height: 6 to 10 feet • Spread: 4 to 6 feet • Form: Dense upright rounded shrub • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Exposure: Shade • Unique Characteristic: young leaves exposed to sun will blacken
Begonia x semperflorens cultorum • Wax Begonia • Foliage: simple; ovate shape with finely serrulated margins; green or bronze colored • Flower: small, axillary clusters, 4-parted, with 2 small and 2 large petal-like parts, white, pink, or red, stamens many • Height: 6 to 18 inches • Spread: 6 to 18 inches • Form: Upright and mounding • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Exposure: Sun to Partial Sun • Unique Characteristic: Roots are poisonous; annual or house plant
Berberis thunbergii • Japanese Barberry • Foliage: Deciduous; simple bright green leaves; 0.5 to 1.3" long; narrows at base; bright red to orange fall color; entire margins • Flower: pale yellow flowers in spring; often hidden under the foliage; • Fruit: 0.3" bright red berries in fall persisting into winter; flowers are clustered • Height: 3 to 6 feet • Spread: 4 to 7 feet • Form: Dense, rounded shrub with numerous branches • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Exposure: Sun to Partial Sun • Unique Characteristic: thorns on stems at leaf nodes
Betula nigra • River Birch • Foliage: Deciduous; simple leaf; modest yellow fall color; doubly serrated margins; veins of leaves are raised and hairy • Height: 40 to 70 feet • Spread: 40 to 60 feet • Form: Pyramidal when young; upright • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Exposure: Sun or Partial Sun • Landscape Use: Shade Tree • Unique Characteristic: pealing bark; multi-stemmed trunk
Buddleia davidii • Butterfly Bush • Foliage: deciduous, semi-evergreen shrub; lance-shaped gray-green leaves on long arching stems • Height: 6-12 feet • Spread: 4-15 feet • Flower: purple, pink, white, or red, and they usually have an orange "throat" in the center; 8-18 in (20-45.7 cm), cone-shaped clusters • Form: round • Leaf Arrangement: opposite • Exposure: Sun to Part Sun • Landscape Use: foundation plant • Unique Characteristic: butterflies and bees love it!
Buxus microphylla • Japanese Boxwood • Foliage: simple, medium green leaves; 0.3 to 1" long; entire margins and indented tip • Flower: Fragrant, non-showy flowers in spring • Height: 4 to 6 feet • Spread: 3 to 4 feet • Form: Compact, dense, rounded shrub; highly branched • Leaf Arrangement: Opposite • Exposure: Sun or Part Sun • Landscape Use: Border; Foundation, Hedge • Unique Characteristic: attracts bees
Buxus sempervirens • Common Boxwood • Foliage: evergreen; simple leaves, entire margins and pointed tips • Flower: small, in axillary clusters • Height: 5-6 feet • Spread: 5-6 feet • Form: dense and multi-branched; most often develops a gumdrop shaped form • Leaf Arrangement: Opposite • Exposure: Sun or Part Sun • Landscape Use: borders, foundations, hedges • Unique Characteristic: underside of leaves has a white line from apex to base; can be trained as a topiary
Camellia japonica • Common Camellia • Foliage: simple, lustrous, leathery dark green leaves; 2 to 4" long; serrated margins • Flower: 3 to 5" semi-double to double flowers in winter or spring; white, pink, red, rose, variegated; not fragrant • Height: 8 to 15 feet • Spread: 5 to 10 feet • Form: Upright, dense, pyramidal shrub; stiff and formal • Leaf Arrangement: Alternate • Exposure: Part Sun • Landscape Use: hedge, foundations, border • Unique Characteristic: grow great in pine tree shade
Camellia sasanqua • Sasanqua Camellia • Foliage: simple; serrated margin; glossy, rich green leaves; evergreen; smaller leaves than C. japonica. • Flowers: profusions of flowers in fall and early winter; 1.5-4 in; smaller leaves than C. japonica • Height: 4-15 feet • Spread: 4- 15 feet • Form: tall shrub • Landscape Use: border, foundation, hedge • Exposure: partial sun • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Unique Characteristic: cuttings can be made using rooting hormone
Canna x generalis • Canna Lily • Foliage: large, tropical appearing foliage wide, furled leaves come out of thick, multiple-eyed rhizomes • Flowers: red, orange, pink, yellow • Height: 24-48 inches • Spread: 8 inches • Form: upright • Leaf Arrangement: none • Landscape Use: border; edging • Exposure: SUN • Unique Characteristic: full sun, divide in spring to reproduce; they’re kin to bananas ; Perennial tuber; drought and heat tolerant
Catharanthus roseus • Madagascar Perwinkle • Foliage: glossy leaves with distinctive white veins; simple, linear shape with entire margins • Flowers: 5 petals in Pink, purple, red, salmon, or white • Height: 6 to 18 inches • Spread: 8 to 10 inches • Form: round to upright • Leaf Arrangement: alternate • Landscape Use: border, container, edging • Exposure: sun • Unique Characteristic: Milk like sap; drought and heat tolerant