Skimmia multinervia C.C.Huang

S. multinervia ranges from eastern Nepal to western China, including Yunnan. Allied to S. laureola and, like it, black-fruited, this species (described in 1958) differs most markedly in its size. In the wild it is usually 10 to 20 ft high, but somtimes a tree 50 ft high. The leaves are about twice as long as in S. laureola, and the female inflorescences are as large and well-formed as those of male plants of that species or of S. japonica. The true species was introduced from Nepal in 1976. The plant at Wakehurst Place from this introduction is a tetraploid with hermaphrodite flowers and has borne its black fruits.