Lab Walk 4: Broadleaved Evergreens Preview

Myrica pennsylvanica

Note semi-evergreen leaves, wax-covered berries

Leaves and berries fragrant when crushed

Buxus x 'Green Velvet'

Note: leaves are opposite, strong fragrance

Helleborus sp.

Note palmately componund foliage, thick and evergreen with serrated edges

Flowers early in spring: flowers white, pink, rose, purple, yellow

Ilex verticillata

Pretty boring right now. Hope you saw the berries before the birds got there.

Ilex opaca

Note tree-form habit, "medium green" leaves

Euonymus fortunei

Note: two cultivars of wintercreeper, clearly loved by deer

Ilex glabra

Note leaves wider at tip than base, three small notches at end of leaf

thin texture, lacking large terminal buds

Pieris japonica

Note terminal flower clusters

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

Euonymus fortunei ‘Coloratus’

Note ground cover habit, purple winter color, serrated leaf margins and white leaf veins

Rhododendron sp

Note large terminal flower buds

Rhododendron sp

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

Sarcococca hookeriana

Note short ground cover habit, flower buds in leaf axils, evergreen

Pachysandra terminalis and Pachysandra terminalis 'Variegatus'

Note terminal flower clusters, visible stolons

Liriope spicata

Note grass-like foliage

Vinca minor

Note, just like Purple leaf winter creeper, this has opposite leaves and white-ish leaf veins - however, the leaf edges are smooth ("entire margins"). And there is no purple coloration.