Buxaceae
Boxwood Family
The Buxaceae family (Boxwood Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Buxales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 3 species across 2 genera. Its members are predominantly shrubs. Well-represented genera include Sarcococca and Buxus. Familiar examples include Small-leaved Box, Thickleaf Sweet-Box and Willow-Leaf Sweet-Box.
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Small, opposite, leathery evergreen leaves on densely branched shrubs classically clipped into hedges; tiny, petal-less, unisexual flowers cluster in the leaf axils, male flowers outnumbering the few female flowers in each cluster.
The tightly packed, small evergreen leaves that make the genus so popular for clipped hedges and topiary are the same trait that lets it be sheared repeatedly without dieback.
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