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Littleleaf Boxwood
Latin Name:
Buxus microphylla
location:
Japan
The Littleleaf Boxwood, known in its Latin name to be Buxus microphylla, is generally living in zones around Japan. It can generally be recognized as 3' to 4' tall with equal spread, making it a plant very different from others. In the summer, the form of its leafs is more or less opposite leaves, leathery and in the automn its foliage is specially foliage tends to turn yellow-green or brownish in fall and winter. The Littleleaf Boxwood (Buxus microphylla) has beautiful flowers that are male and female flowers and its fruits are more or less insignificant 3-celled dehiscent capsule. It has a special bark, where we can see new stems green with square shape on it. An interesting information to note about its culture would be that prefers moist, cool soil with mulch around roots However, a bad thing with the Littleleaf Boxwood can be that lack of cold hardiness without proper selection of cultivars It can be easy to recognize a Buxus microphylla with its opposite leaves distinguish it from
Ilex crenata
which has alternate leaves. The Littleleaf Boxwood's reproduction is very special since it does it cuttings root readily
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