Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved

Buxus balearica is the bold-leaved boxwood: an upright shrub or small tree related to the common boxwood

an advantage along a path or a seating area

from the Greek hyper

and the native American holly

Dichroa versicolor Fred Heutte Buxus balearica is the bold-leavedThe genus name comes from the Greek dichroos, meaning "two colored," and Dichroa versicolor presses the idea further: bloom color shifts with soil chemistry much the way a hydrangea does, swinging from deep cobalt to soft mauve depending on how much aluminum a plant can draw up. The species epithet versicolor only doubles down on the point, promising a shrub that refuses to settle on a single shade. Botanically this is the close cousin of the more