Myrica rubra Allen Bush The compound behind that reputation

The compound behind that reputation is thymol

these ferns are among the finest natives for bringing drama and calm together in any shaded garden

a white-flowered

a tree most botanists will only ever meet as a pressed sheet in a drawer

this hybrid came to Woodlanders by way of Brookside Gardens in Maryland

Myrica rubra Allen Bush The compound behind that reputationMyrica rubra, the Chinese bayberry or yangmei, is a fruiting evergreen tree from the misty mountains of East Asia, revered for centuries across China and Japan for tangy sweet berries and an elegant, shapely form. Imagine cherries and cranberries with a botanical lovechild that had the moodiness of a plum and the antioxidant punch of a superfruit, and something close to yangmei would be the result. The current stock is female, tissue cultured clones