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 ( 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; in; smaller leaves than C. japonica –Height: 4-15 feet –Spread: 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: 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 tolerantbananas

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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