a chance hybrid among three of the southeastern native azaleas: the white
dark-leaved shrub that Hillier's manual once flatly called indispensable
The habit stays fairly compact and upright
Doubly compound and among the largest leaves of any native tree
dying back in winter and returning from the root
Quercus michauxii Medicinal a chance hybrid among threeQuercus michauxii is a big, generous bottomland oak that borrows the best of two better known relatives: the pale, flaky, handsome bark of the white oak, and the large, coarsely toothed, chestnut shaped leaves of the chestnut oak. The result is one of the noblest of the Southern hardwoods. In Coker and Totten's Trees of the Southeastern States, a 1931 letter from James Henry Rice, Jr. of Colleton County, South Carolina, put it plainly: "It is a noble