Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock peppercorn-like seed capsules that follow

peppercorn-like seed capsules that follow the flowers and hang on through winter

Japanese maples

and repays the attention with months of scent

so prune only right after flowering

Cudrania cochinchinensis 25/4 Restock peppercorn-like seed capsules that followThis spiny, sprawling, half vining shrub carries glossy evergreen leaves and a tangle of thorns. Sometimes classified as a Maclura and related to the native Osage orange, cockspur thorn ranges widely across eastern Asia and south to Australia, yet stays rare and little known in North America, familiar mostly to a few bonsai enthusiasts. Woodlanders first met this plant years ago at Pinewood Estate, a winter home built in the 1930s in the exclusive