Myrica rubra Allen Bush and the plant keeps a

and the plant keeps a similarly rounded

making this plant both culturally and botanically significant

this hybrid came to Woodlanders by way of Brookside Gardens in Maryland

a white-flowered

Bryson passed the tip to Charles Cantrell

Myrica rubra Allen Bush and the plant keeps aMyrica rubra, the Chinese bayberry or yangmei, is a fruiting evergreen tree from the misty mountains of East Asia, revered for centuries across China and Japan for tangy sweet berries and an elegant, shapely form. Imagine cherries and cranberries with a botanical lovechild that had the moodiness of a plum and the antioxidant punch of a superfruit, and something close to yangmei would be the result. The current stock is female, tissue cultured clones