There are about 4 species of evergreen shrubs or small trees from a wide variety of habitats from the Himalayas to Eastern Asia, in this genus. \u00a0Grown for their bold alternate, glossy, leaves that are either have smooth or serrated edges and for their clusters of red, orange, whitish-yellow fruits borne in autumn. \u00a0Both male and female plants are needed to produce berries. \u00a0The green or maroon flowers are not very showy but grow from the leaf axils or at the ends of terminal shoots. \u00a0Valued for their tolerance of deep shade, dry soils, pollution, neglect, and salt winds. \u00a0Cultivars with speckled or mottled leaves are popular. \u00a0Aucuba\u2019s are great plants to use as a specimen, for hedges and screens, or to fill a dark corner.<\/p>\n
Grow these frost tolerate plants in any soil that\u2019s not waterlogged, in full sun or partial shaded or full shade. \u00a0The variegated forms will scorch in full sun. \u00a0Where summers are hot plant in shade. \u00a0Shelter from winter snow and wind for the basal stems are weak and will snap. \u00a0Prune in spring.<\/p>\n
Prone to wet root rot, Southern Blight,<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and fungal leaf spots<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n Aucuba japonica <\/b><\/strong>\u2018Salicifolia\u2019 <\/b><\/strong>– Japanese Aucuba \u2013 Japanese Laurel \u2013 <\/b><\/strong>These evergreen shrub from Japan grow 6-10\u2019 feet tall and in breadth. \u00a0On basal sprouting weak, soft wooded stems it produces slender, narrow, elliptic to ovate, thick, glossy, mid green leaves to 8-10\u201d long with few toothed edges.\u00a0\u00a0These female plants bear bright red berries to \u00bd\u201d wide in early autumn.<\/p>\n Zones 6-10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aucuba \u2013 Spooted Laurel There are about 4 species of evergreen shrubs or small trees from a wide variety of habitats from the Himalayas to Eastern Asia, in this genus. \u00a0Grown for their bold alternate, glossy, leaves that are either have smooth or serrated edges and for their clusters of red, orange, whitish-yellow fruits borne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[42,18,58,21,41,28,16,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160255028"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}