Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction 'Aztec Pearl' is a neat

'Aztec Pearl' is a neat

and the cultivar passes the trait on freely: 'Tama no ura' is the parent of a whole family of 'Tama' camellias bred for that picotee edge

non-self-sowing alternative to the common butterfly bush

The fruit is too sharp to eat straight

or set the plant among dwarf conifers and other acid-lovers for a heath-and-heather tapestry of contrasting textures

Ardisia japonica 'Hakuokan' Woodlanders Introduction 'Aztec Pearl' is a neatArdisia japonica 'Hakuokan' is a jewel of the Japanese shade garden, a low evergreen groundcover whose small, glossy, leathery leaves are edged in a clean band of creamy white. The green species, called yabukoji in Japan and marlberry in English, has grown wild in the woodland understory of Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan for ages, spreading quietly by underground runners into knee low colonies. 'Hakuokan', a name that reads roughly as white royal