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Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.
Common names include box and boxwood. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The boxes are native to western and southern Europe, southwest, southern and eastern Asia, Africa, Madagascar, northernmost South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, with the majority of species being tropical or subtropical; only the European and some Asian species are ...
Indicative of its familiarity to many people over a large geographic range, A. negundo has numerous common names. The names "box elder" and "boxelder maple" are based upon the similarity of its whitish wood to that of boxwood and the similarity of its pinnately compound leaves to those of some species of elder. [11]
Boxwood may refer to: Buxus, a genus of about 70 species of shrubs and trees in the family Buxaceæ, called "boxwood" in North America, but just "box" in the majority of English-speaking countries (though its wood is "boxwood"). Buxus sempervirens, the most common species of Buxus, and the only one called "boxwood" in United Kingdom
Scientific name Common name Family Conservation status Conifers; Araucariaceae: monkey-puzzle family; Agathis: kauri ; Agathis australis: kauri; New Zealand kauri Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Agathis lanceolata: red kauri Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Agathis robusta: Queensland kauri; smooth bark kauri; Dundathu pine
Paxistima myrsinites (Oregon boxleaf, Oregon boxwood, mountain lover, box, or hedge, false box, myrtle box leaf; syn. Pachistima myrsinites) [2] is a species of shrub in the family Celastraceae. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern Mexico to the Rocky Mountains , where it grows in forests, often in the ...
Boxwood, common box (Buxus sempervirens) Brazilian walnut (Ocotea porosa) Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata) Buckeye, Horse-chestnut (Aesculus) Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) Yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava) Butternut (Juglans cinerea) California bay laurel (Umbellularia californica) Camphor tree ...
In general, the boxwood varieties within the species sempervirens tend to be more susceptible to this disease; this would include the most popular varieties 'English' and 'American' boxwood. [9] Other plants within the family Buxaceae , such as Pachysandra terminalis , as well as a Sarcococca species, have also found to be susceptible to this ...