Myrica rubra Allen Bush making this plant both culturally

making this plant both culturally and botanically significant

Broad and heart-shaped on long petioles

spineless leaves look nothing like a Christmas holly until the flowers appear

and deer accordingly leave the plant alone

Myrica rubra Allen Bush making this plant both culturallyMyrica rubra, the Chinese bayberry or yangmei, is a fruiting evergreen tree from the misty mountains of East Asia, revered for centuries across China and Japan for tangy sweet berries and an elegant, shapely form. Imagine cherries and cranberries with a botanical lovechild that had the moodiness of a plum and the antioxidant punch of a superfruit, and something close to yangmei would be the result. The current stock is female, tissue cultured clones