Buxus microphylla Siebold & Zucc. 'Faulkner'
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Buxus microphylla 'Faulkner'

Family: BUXACEAE
Genus: Buxus
Species: microphylla Siebold & Zucc.
Cultivar: 'Faulkner'
Common names: Small-Leaved Box 'Faulkner'
Distribution summary: Japan
Habit: Shrub
Hardiness: H5 - Hardy; cold winter
Habitat: Garden origin
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Plants of the World (C)
Reason for growing: Toxic

Additional Notes

'Faulkner' is a dense, low, compact, spreading evergreen shrub with small, rounded, mid-green aromatic leaves Good for small hedging/topiary

Contact with the sap may cause skin irritation. Ingestion causes vomiting and diarrhoea. Poisonous to animals.

Professor Anthony Dayan, 2022

All parts of the plant are poisonous, especially the leaves and bark.

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