Exbucklandia populnea Fragrant What sets the plant apart

What sets the plant apart is disarmingly small: petals shorter than those of any other serviceberry in the Northeast

Brush past them on the way to somewhere else and the whole border goes to mint

holding leaves as far north as USDA zone five where most broadleaf evergreens fail

Daphniphyllum calycinum is a genuine rarity in Western horticulture

and a superb container subject that can be wheeled under cover farther north

Exbucklandia populnea Fragrant What sets the plant apartExbucklandia populnea is a rare evergreen tree that fools nearly everyone who meets it. The large, glossy, leathery leaves, sometimes shallowly three lobed and carried on long stalks, look for all the world like those of a tulip poplar, yet the tree belongs to the witch hazel family, a kinship few would ever guess. Bold and architectural, with bronze red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot, this is a foliage tree of real