AUCUBA. DOGWOOD 



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not green. Fruit not capsular, and seeds 

 not arillate. 



O Evergreen shrub, with large and glossy, 

 broadly lanceolate leaves; flowers purple- 

 brown, small dioecious; berries red. 



Aucuba japonica, Thunb. Aucuba (Fig. 121). A 

 loosely branched, densely foliaged shrub [often] about 3 4 

 feet high [or taller]. Leaves often variegated with white 



Fig. 122. Cornus sanguined, Dogwood. Flowering shoot (Wi). 



[or yellow]. One of the plants popularly termed "Laurels" 

 by gardeners, but see p. 253. The leaves are coriaceous 

 and opposite. 



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