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Pachygone laurifolia (DC.) L.Lian & Wei Wang

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

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'Pachygone laurifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pachygone/pachygone-laurifolia/). Accessed 2026-10-15.

Family

  • Menispermaceae

Genus

Synonyms

  • Cocculus laurifolius DC.

Other taxa in genus

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    Credits

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

    Recommended citation
    'Pachygone laurifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pachygone/pachygone-laurifolia/). Accessed 2026-10-15.

    Pachygone laurifolia

    Leaves of Pachygone laurifolia are easy to distinguish with their three conspicuously parallel veins and black-purplish petioles. Garden of the photographer, Oisquercq, Belgium. 31 August 2017. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

    Editorial Note

    Treated by Bean as Cocculus laurifolius. Lian et al. (2020) found Cocculus as traditionally understood to be polyphyletic, distributed between three different clades. This was resolved by moving several species into the resurrected genus Nephroia, and this species to Pachygone as P. laurifolia.

    An evergreen shrub 10 ft or more high, sometimes a small tree, with lance-shaped, conspicuously three-ribbed leaves 5 to 8 in. long, about 2 in. wide, the stalks 3⁄4 in. long; they are of a very glossy, varnished, dark green, giving to the shrub a very characteristic aspect. Flowers small, in axillary panicles.

    At Kew this plant can only be grown against a wall, where it lived for many years without injury. In the south of France and Italy it forms a picturesque spreading shrub or small tree. Native of the Himalaya.

    Pachygone laurifolia

    The yellow flowers of Pachygone laurifolia are small and grouped in axillary panicles. Garden of the photographer, Oisquercq, Belgium. 2 July 2020. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

    Pachygone laurifolia

    New shoot with lance-shaped leaves of Pachygone laurifolia. Garden of the photographer, Oisquercq, Belgium. 2 July 2020. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

    Pachygone laurifolia

    Native of the Himalaya, Pachygone laurifolia forms a picturesque spreading shrub or small tree. Here pictured in the private garden "Les Bruyères", Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France. 2 April 2009. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

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