Backside of Leaves of False Arborvitae

This picture show you the backside of the leaves of False Arborvitae. As you can see the backside of leave is white. So you can easily identify this plant from other similar plants.

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Leaves of Yunnan Itea

Yunnan Itea is evergreen shrub. The origin of this plant is South China. This plant grows 1.8 m (6 feet) height and width and occasionally grows bigger. Yunnan Itea has raceme flowers in spring.

Leaves of Keteleeria

Keteleeria is evergreen tree originate China and Southeast Asia. This tree grows 35m (120 feet) height. This tree is cultivated for timber or ornamental purposes. The plant prefer to grow on sandy well drained area.

Japanese Sweet Flag

Japanese Sweet Flag is perennial grass like plant. This plant prefers to grow in wet areas even though it can grow regular garden if you give it plenty of water everyday. The leaves of Japanese Sweet Flag are about 30cm (one foot) long and some cultivars are available. Japanese Sweet Flag spreads with its rhizomes densely so this plant is used as a ground cover of wet area.

Leaves of Japanese Euonymus

Japanese Euonymus is an evergreen shrub and grows 2.4m (8 feet) height and width in full sun or partial shade area. The shrub is very easy to grow even dry and seaside area. And Japanese Euonymus can be used in many purposes for your landscaping project and you can enjoy dark green glossy foliage or beautiful variegated version.

Leaves of Japanese Cleyera

Japanese Cleyera is evergreen shrub and grow 4.5m (25 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width in sunny or partial shade area. This shrub is used for many different purpose such as hedge, screen, container plant etc because beauty of its shiny leaves and fragrant flowers.

Leaves of Hardy Pittosporum

Hardy Pittosporum is evergreen shrub and very good as landscape plant and hedge plant. Hardy Pittosporum grows 3.6m (12 feet) height and width and has fragrant flowers in spring.

Eurya Emarginata

This photo is for leaves and buds of Eurya Emarginata. Eurya Emarginata is an evergreen shrub and popular in Japan, Korea and China. This tree grows 1.8m (6 feet) height and width. We call this tree “Hamahisakaki (浜姫榊)” and often plant in a park and sides of a road.

Leaves of Deodar Cedar

Deodar Cedar is a plant from Himalaya where this evergreen tree grows 60m (200 feet) height. But usually we found 18m (60 feet) height and 12m (40 feet) width range trees for cultivation. This tree forms pyramidal shape and lower branches sweep ground. The lengths of needle like leaves are about 5cm (2 inches). Here is more detail for Deodar Cedar.

Leaves of Courtesy Leaf

This leaves picture is for Courtesy Leaf. Courtesy Leaf is native plant of Taiwan and not popular in USA. This evergreen shrub has habit to grow roundly and grows about 4.5m (15 feet) height and width in the area of full sun or partial shade and prefers acid soil.