Sarcococca saligna Brookgreen Gardens and avoid high-pH soils

and avoid high-pH soils

each compound leaf composed of seven to thirteen softly pointed leaflets whose netted veining gives the species the name reticulata

Dirr rated this group among the most sun and heat tolerant of all the sweetshrubs he trialed

often under two feet where winter cold checks the top growth

Sarcococca saligna Brookgreen Gardens and avoid high-pH soilsUpright wide spreading. evergreen shrub with distinctive willow like narrow leaves. Unlike but related to Boxwood. Dark purple to black fruit. This species from the western Himalayas is very little known and seldom available from nurseries in the U. S. Perhaps a bit less cold hardy than some of the other Sarcococca species but a good plant for shady garden areas in the Deep South.