Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie'
Object Details
- Description
- This compact aucuba is a female cultivar with eye-catching red fruit, but still needs a male plant or cultivar to produce it. Its glossy, dark green leaves can sometimes be confused for holly, but is typically less pointy.
- Hardiness
- -10 - 40 F
- Provenance
- Uncertain
- Range
- cultivated
- Topic
- Display Gardens
- Living Collections
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Display Collection
- On Display
- Ripley Gardens
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2023-0031A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Common Name
- Japanese laurel cultivar
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Asteranae
- Order
- Garryales
- Family
- Garryaceae
- Genus
- Aucuba
- Species
- japonica
- Life Form
- Evergreen shrub/sub-shrub
- Foliage Characteristics
- Opposite, simple, glossy, dark green leaves are serrated. Leaves are 5" (12.7 cm) long and 2.25" (5.7 cm) wide.
- Fruit Characteristics
- Red drupes appear in fall and last until spring. This is a female cultivar that needs a male plant for pollination.
- Plant Size
- 4.5' tall x 6' wide (1.4 x 1.8 meters)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2023-0031A