Skimmia

Our collection of this self-fertile species from a little-visited-by-westerners limestone mountain area. A small but fecund species, possibly sharing the same genetic lineage as rabbits, this will flower and set showy red fruit the second year from seed. Gets just 1'-3' tall with glossy dark green leaves in shade.

A Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy Offering. Our collection of what we presume to be this species although given the distribution from Nepal into China and Vietnam, we wouldn't be shocked to see this species broken into varieties or subspecies. If it is this species, give it some room as it can hit 40' tall as a venerable old-growth specimen but expect much less in the garden. Upright evergreen with pale butter-white flowers and blue-black fruit. Young plants of this rarity and hardiness unknown at this point.