Native Region Japan
Plant Type Evergreen shrub
Avg. Height: 3 to 5 feet
Avg. Spread/Width: 3 to 5 feet
Leaf
Bright green
½ to 1 inch
Round-tipped,
obovate to
lanceolate-obovate
Leaves can turn
brown to bronze in
winter
Flower
Inconspicuous pale yellow flower in spring
Can be sweetly fragrant
Fruit:
None

Dense, grows slowly .
Most commonly planted of the cultivars.
Takes dry heat and alkaline soil, struggles with intense
desert heat and saline soils.
Susceptible to root and crown rots and foliage blight
diseases.

Used as a low hedge, topiaries and edging in Japanese
gardens and as container plants.
Known simply as box in England.