Machilus thunbergii Small & Medium Shrubs Citrus 'Rusk' dates to 1897

Citrus 'Rusk' dates to 1897

Where the familiar sweetspires of American gardens drop their leaves for a blaze of fall color

tubular flowers open in a cool violet-blue from spring through fall

acid soils of the coastal plain from Nova Scotia and New Jersey south through Florida and across the Gulf states

shade borders

Machilus thunbergii Small & Medium Shrubs Citrus 'Rusk' dates to 1897The Lauraceae is an underappreciated family. Its members include cinnamon, camphor, bay laurel, and the avocado, which gives you some sense of the range of things the family has contributed to human civilization. Machilus thunbergii is another member in good standing, though these trees arrive in the Western garden with considerably less fanfare than their relatives. In East Asia they are well known: a coastal evergreen tree native to Japan, Korea,