Aucuba sp. (himalayica?) 24/10 Restock and serves

and serves

like most ferns

dense terminal clusters of tiny greenish to creamy-white flowers gather at the branch tips

The flowers come impossibly early

Aucuba sp. (himalayica?) 24/10 Restock and servesThis is one of the quiet mysteries of the Woodlanders collection, a narrow leaved evergreen aucuba received years ago from the U. S. National Arboretum under the name Aucuba himalayica, and quite possibly the slender japonica form known as 'Longifolia' instead. Either way the plant is a striking departure from the usual aucuba, trading broad, spotted leaves for long, willow like, finely serrated blades of glossy dark green. Woodlanders has not seen