Phoebe chekiangensis Burkwood & Skipwith climbing modestly by twining leaf-stalks

climbing modestly by twining leaf-stalks and dying back to the ground each winter to return in spring

and luminous

Little bluestem

where they open in the warmth and fill a house with perfume

site where they can be enjoyed

Phoebe chekiangensis Burkwood & Skipwith climbing modestly by twining leaf-stalksPhoebe chekiangensis is one of a group of Chinese evergreens that could give the American South a whole new kind of shade tree. Upright and clean limbed, the tree carries dense, leathery, dark green leaves much like those of the related redbay, glossy and handsome the year round, and grows at a steady pace into a small to medium tree of real presence. The plant belongs to Lauraceae, the laurel family, close kin to Persea, the avocado and the native