H2- Plant ID #2

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– 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

Comparison of Camellias

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

Cercis canadensis• Eastern Red Bud

– Foliage: 3 to 5", simple, heart shaped leaf; yellow green fall color; deciduous

– Flowers: Reddish purple buds; rosy pink pea-like flowers in clusters early spring before leaves emerge

– Height: 20 to 30 feet– Spread: 25 to 35 feet– Form: Dense; flat topped to rounded crown; often

multi-stemmed; zigzag horizontal branches – Leaf Arrangement: alternate– Landscape Use: foundation, border, hedge– Exposure: sun– Unique Characteristic: According to the myth, Judas

Iscariot hanged himself on the related Judas-tree of western Asia and Southern Europe, after which the white flowers turned red with shame or blood.

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