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

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'Pachysandra axillaris' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pachysandra/pachysandra-axillaris/). Accessed 2025-01-17.

Glossary

entire
With an unbroken margin.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
prostrate
Lying flat.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Pachysandra axillaris' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/pachysandra/pachysandra-axillaris/). Accessed 2025-01-17.

Pachysandra axillaris

Pachysandra axillaris. A form recently introduced to the UK by Crûg Farm Plants, growing well here at Sarum, Surrey. 7 March 2024. Image Tom Christian.

An evergreen, semi-woody plant with prostrate root-stocks, from which rise the young stems 4 to 10 in. high, at first minutely downy. Leaves three to six near the summit of each stem, ovate, broadly wedge-shaped or rounded and entire at the base, coarsely toothed at the upper part, 2 to 4 in. long, 11⁄4 to 21⁄4 in. wide. Flowers white, produced in April in erect spikes 3⁄4 to 1 in. long, from the axils of the leaves. Fruits about the size of a pea, with two or three long, curly-ended styles persisting at the top.

Native of China; discovered in Yunnan by the Abbé Delavay; introduced by Wilson in 1901. Of little beauty, it may by lovers of curiosities be given a place in some shady corner of the rock garden.

Pachysandra axillaris

This form of Pachysandra axillaris has recently been given the cultivar name 'Windcliff Fragrant'. Heronswood, Washington, USA. 23 February 2019. Image John Anderson.

Pachysandra axillaris

Another recently named form, Pachysandra axillaris 'Crûg Cover' selected from BSWJ 8032 pictured at an RHS show in London, 21 February 2014. Image John Anderson.

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