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Golden Privet: Introduction to a New Colorful-Leaf Plant Variety
Golden Privet: also known as Howard's privet, Ligustrum japonicum 'Howardii', a new colorful-leaf variety in the Japanese privet series. Evergreen shrub or small tree; leaves leathery, thick, with a fleshy feel; new leaves in spring are bright yellow, turning golden yellow by winter, and some new leaves have cloud-like light green patches along both sides of the midrib or locally on one side, with bright and pleasing colors; internodes short, branches and leaves dense. The original species is distributed from west of Kanto in Japan, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Taiwan, China. It likes light, is drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant, and can grow in acidic,
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Golden-leaf dawn redwood is a new and superior colored-leaf tree species
Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is the only surviving species of the genus Metasequoia in the family Cupressaceae. This species was once thought to be extinct, until it was discovered in 1941 in the Lichuan area of Hubei, China, and afterwards this plant was also found successively in the Wanxian area of Sichuan. In 1947, dawn redwood seeds were introduced to the Arnold Arboretum in the United States, and from there spread to botanical gardens around the world. In 1948, "dawn redwood" and its scientific name were formally named, and since then it has enjoyed great fame in China and even the whole
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