Lab Walk 4: Broadleaved Evergreens

Ilex verticillata    Pretty boring group.  Look around campus for better cultivars with berries  

Ilex opaca     Note tree-form habit, "medium green" leaves

Salix "Flame' Note, branching is ALTERNATE Shrub willow; colorful stems with brightest color on young stems

Myrica pennsylvanica Note: semi-evergreen foliage Scratch and sniff!  Leaves and berries have strong scent berries covered in gray wax

Salix matsudana ‘Torulosa’ Note twisted stems and weeping habit One bud scale

Euonymus fortunei   Note: two cultivars of wintercreeper, clearly loved by deer

Rhododendron sp Note large terminal flower buds

Rhododendron sp Note leaves smaller and thinner than R. Catawbiense, plants much smaller, terminal flower clusters

Pieris japonica       Note terminal flower clusters

Mahonia aquifolium   Note: Pinnately compound leaves, sharp spikes, large flower clusters at teminals of some branches Purple winter color

Ilex glabra      Note leaves wider at tip than base, three small notches at end of leaf thin texture, lacking large terminal buds

Cotinus coggygia Note small triangular buds sith "singed" look - black on stems areound buds. Scatch and Sniff!  Stems have a veggie scent - carrots? Large, multi-stemmed shrub

Rhododendron catawbiense Note thick, large leathery leaves, coarse habit and very large terminal flower buds

Ilex x meserveae       Note leaves are simple, NOT compund, lacking large flower clusters; leves rich dark bluish green shrub form

Buxus sempervirens   Note foliage opposite, strong odor

Buxus x 'Green Velvet' Note lighter green color than common boxwood. Leves opposite storng smell