Aucuba

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Aucuba' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aucuba/). Accessed 2025-06-12.

Family

Garryaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

berry: Fleshy indehiscent fruit with seed(s) immersed in pulp.
calyx: (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Aucuba' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aucuba/). Accessed 2025-06-12.

A very healthy and fast growing specimen of Aucuba chinensis, introduced by Roy Lancaster from Mount Omei, China, and still frequently grown as Aucuba omeiensis in Europe. Tregrehan, Cornwall, UK. 25 February 2025. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

A genus of two or three Asiatic evergreen shrubs with opposite, leathery leaves; the sexes are on different plants. The petals, calyx-lobes, and stamens are four to each flower; and the fruit is a large, oblong berry, scarlet or orange coloured.

Aucuba japonica: a male plant in flower. Killerton, Devon, UK. 24 March 2023. Image Julian Sutton.

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