Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible where the skyrocket flowers and

where the skyrocket flowers and the red-and-blue fruit can carry a planting from midsummer into fall

root-hardy in zone 8 and a year-round shrub in frost-free gardens

lending a planting a settled sense of place

ivory white with a deep maroon throat

Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible where the skyrocket flowers andDistylium myricoides belongs to the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, an evergreen cousin of the fragrant winter witch hazels, though the kinship shows in the flowers rather than the leaves. The Piroche form is a distinct, low slung selection of the species, chosen for a broad, spreading habit and strong horizontal branching that make the plant read more as living groundwork than as an upright shrub. Where the typical isu tree arches upward into a