Buxus

Buxus sempervirens
Common Boxwood, American Boxwood
Often shaped into topiary and hedging, it takes hard trimming and grows slowly. Dwarf forms have long been popular to edge walks and flowerbeds.

Buxus sempervirens 'Monrue'
Buxus sempervirens 'Monrue' (Green Tower') makes a perfect hedge plant for tight spaces, as it grows moderately to fast in a columnar form to nine feet tall, one to two feet wide.

Buxus
Family: Buxaceae.
Buxus microphylla Zieb. et Zucc. Common name(s): Box, Boxwood ...

Buxus microphylla japonica. JAPANESE BOXWOOD. Japan, Korea
Buxaceae
Shrub, compact growth, usually sheared to form a low hedge. Leaves are simple, opposite, bright green in summer, to 1+-inch long.

Buxus microphylla var japonica 'Green Beauty' (Japanese Boxwood) - Japanese Boxwood is a dense rounded shrub growing only 6 feet tall, easily kept smaller if desired.

Buxus microphylla var. japonica
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Japanese Boxwoood
Description
Japanese Boxwood is a dense rounded shrub growing only 6 feet tall, but grows faster than the species. The small, lance shaped leaves are dark green and turn bronze in winter.

Buxus sempervirens
Nombres relacionados: Al bakkes (Marruecos), Boix (catalán), Boj (castellano), Boje (castellano), Box (inglés), Boxux sempervirens (sinónimo), Buchsbaum (alemán), Buis (francés), Buje (gallego y/o portugués), Bujo (castellano), ...

Buxus microphylla var. koreana (syn. Buxus sinica var. insularis) Buxaceae
Korean Littleleaf Boxwood BUK-sus mi-kro-FIL-a ...

Buxus microphylla japonica
( Japanese Boxwood )
Popular evergreen shrub with light green, rounded leaves and dense growth. Makes an excellent sheared hedge or left unpruned, a classical accent at entrys and corners. Does well as a container plant.

Buxus microphylla japonica
Boxwood
Buxaceae Family
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USDA Plants Database - Horticulture
Buxus sempervirens is planted in the highlighted USDA hardiness zones to the left and is not known to widely escape cultivaton.

Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa'
Genus: Buxus
Species: sempervirens
Cultivar: 'Suffruticosa' ...

#910 Buxus microphylla
Common Names: littleleaf boxwood, small-leaved boxwood, boxwood
Family: Buxaceae (boxwood Family)
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Buxus microphylla 'Kingsville Dwarf'
COMMON: Littleleaf Boxwood
LEAVES: Opposite, simple, 1/3 to 1" long, 1/6 to 1/3" width, rounded, light green, turning yellowish-green in winter, evergreen
SIZE: 3 to 4' tall, equal in width ...

Buxus sempervirens
Trees and Shrubs, Bonsai
Seed may be sown in spring, outdoors, in a sheltered location; germination is erratic. Grow from semi-hard cuttings in summer, or from hardwood cuttings.

Buxus Semp. 'Eligantissima' - Variegated English Boxwood
by Holly Hill Nurseries
2.5 inch containers
6 to 10 inches tall ...

Buxus sempervirens (box) - dense bushy rounded shrub up to 5m (15ft) high that tolerates regular pruning to shape
Ilex aquifolium AGM (holly) - large dense shrub with glossy spiny leaves that tolerates regular pruning ...

Buxus sempervirens cultivars:
'Angustifolia' has the largest leaves and is treelike in habit.
'Argenteo-variegata' has green leaves variegated with white.
'Aureo-variegata' has green leaves variegated with yellow.

Buxus 'Green Velvet' : Green Velvet Boxwood - Foliage
Buxus microphylla koreana 'Tide Hill' : Tide Hill Korean Boxwood - Whole Plant
Buxus microphylla koreana 'Winter Beauty' : Winter Beauty Korean Boxwood - Foliage ...

Buxus sempervirens 'Marginata'
Upright oval form slow growing to 3' high by 2' wide. Only dwarf shrub that holds its showy cream variegation in shaded conditions. Excellent accent and a rare find.
Light: Morning sun to filtered shade.

Buxus microphylla
Family: Buxaceae
Littleleaf Boxwood, Small-leaved Boxwood, Japanese Boxwood
Origin: Japan ...

Buxus sempervirens 'Green Mountain'
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Buxus saligna, Sarcococca pruniformis var. angustifolia
Buxaceae
Willow-Leaf Sweet-Box ...

Box (Buxus) - This beautiful bush grows wild on some of our southern chalk hills, and is much cultivated in gardens as an edging, and also in shrubberies.

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TREE BOXWOOD
Buxus sempervirens 'arborescens'
General Notes
Responds well to shearing. SelecTree lists 1 cultivar of sempervirens: 'arborescens' ...

Littleleaf Boxwood (Buxus)
Yew (Taxus)
Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
Dwarf Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata 'Compacta')
Convexa Holly (Ilex crenata 'Convexa') ...

Dee Runk American Boxwood [English]: Buxus sempervirens 'Dee Runk'
Dee Runk Boxwood [English]: Buxus sempervirens 'Dee Runk'
Dee Runk Common Boxwood [English]: Buxus sempervirens 'Dee Runk'
Dee-kaduru [English]: Pagiantha dichotoma ...

'Green Gem' Boxwood (Buxus 'Green Gem') h 75 cm, w 80 cm, s d, Zone 5
'Green Mountain' Boxwood (B. 'Green Mountain') h 1.5 m, w 1 m, s f, Zone 5
'Green Velvet' Boxwood (B. 'Green Velvet') h and w 1 m, s f, Zone 5
'Winter Gem' Korean Boxwood (B.

- Buxus harlandii: Harland box - A native of Taiwan, the Harland box can grow to 33 feet. Its leaves are thinner than other box species.

However, as von Balthazar and Endress (2002) show, interpretation of inflorescence morphology is not easy, indeed, the nature of the paired "bracts" (?prophylls?!) below the carpellate flowers of Buxus is particularly unclear.

The boxes (genus Buxus) have been widely introduced to other regions for use as hedge plants and for their wood.

Common species choices used in topiary include cultivars of European box (Buxus sempervirens), arborvitae (Thuja species), bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), holly (Ilex species), myrtle (Eugenia or Myrtus species), yew (Taxus species), ...

Buxus microphylla 'Winter Gem'
A very cold-hardy and densely branched, broadleaved evergreen that shears well and retains its green foliage through winter, making it an attractive landscape choice. A moderate grower reaching 2-3' tall and wide.

leaves evergreen, alternate (unlike Buxus)
leaves small (under 1"), elliptic, deep green, close together on stem
leaves have small serrations toward tip
stems green when young, gray/brown with age
habit medium to large multi-stemmed shrub ...

In the Mid-Atlantic, wealthy people actually have Buxus sempervirens (boxwood). In the Northeast and Midwest, gardeners have Taxus bacatta and Thuja occidentalis (yew and arborvitae) as meatballs of choice.

A root parasite found mainly on poplar (Populus) and willow (Salix), purple toothwort is also recorded as growing on a wide range of other plants in the wild and in cultivation, including Acer, Alnus, Buxus, Carpinus, Corylus, Juglans, Metasequoia, ...

See also: Green, Buxus sempervirens, Boxwood, May, Evergreen