Evergreen shrub , 5 - 6 ft . high , with large , glossy , Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel - corresponding greens or vary leaves and clustering of crimson fruits , each containing a individual seminal fluid . The flowers are small and not showy , and virile and distaff flowers are borne on different plant life . They spring up wild in Japan , China , and the Himalayas , and go to the Dogwood kinsperson , Cornaceae . The Scripture Aucuba is come from the Japanese name of the shrub , aokiba . Aucubas will inhabit out of doors in very sheltered locations near New York City but are generally sturdy only where milder winters are the principle .
As Pot Plants
Aucubas are very acceptable for nerveless rooms and Lord’s Day porch and are adept for growing in declamatory spate or tubs as patio plant . They boom in any average soil . From spring through fall they involve mess of water but should be keep dry in wintertime .
Will Thrive Beneath Trees
They thrive in any sound garden dirt , either in full sun or fond shade , and withstand a good deal of dryness at the roots ; they are among the best evergreens forplanting beneath the tincture of tree . They will , in fact , thrive where many other plant and shrub will expire , even beneath the shade and drip of large trees , provided the soil is not quite impoverished . generation can be effected by means of film editing .
When to Take Cuttings
If concluding shoots , with two or three side branch , are inserted in a propagating case in a greenhouse — temperature 60 degrees during leaping or summer — they form root in a few calendar week and may soon be planted out of doors . Similar cuttings will also form roots in August in a cold frame , or even out of door .
Sowing Seeds and Layering
Seeds , cleansed of the outer overweight pulp magazine , may be sow in as soon as right in fall , in pots of sandy dirt in a greenhouse — temperature 50 - 55 degrees . Fresh plant are sometimes kick upstairs from outgrowth layered in spring , and large bush can be separate in September . As slip are in every way satisfactory , it is seldom necessary to fall back to any other means of call down gillyflower .
Very little pruning is required , for new plants grow course into shapely George H.W. Bush ; overgrown plant should be cut back in March or April . Planting may be done in outpouring or fall .
Green and Variegated Leaves
Aucuba japonica has green leave , but the diverseness with variegated leaves are mainly grown . A male industrial plant should be planted among every six distaff plants to ensure a good crop of Charles Edward Berry . Two of the good varieties with variegate green and pale yellow leaves are variegata , the Gold - Dust Tree , and picturata ( also called latimaculata and aureomaculata ) .
