Buxus

Buxus is an evergreen which exists out of 70 species Buxacaea. Only a few of these species are frost-tolerant.

The shrubs grow native in western and southern Europe, and even in Madagascar they can be found.

It is a slow growing evergreen shrub with a hight between 2 and 10 meters.

It flowers with small, yellow-green flowers. The leaves are leathery. Buxus is mostly used as evergreen hedges and also for topiary.