Cryptomeria japonica 'Lemonade' Gulfstream Nursery California Laurel or Myrtlewood is

California Laurel or Myrtlewood is a medium size dense evergreen tree with glossy leaves and rounded habit of growth

but the deeper reason to grow the tree is conservation: every planted Oglethorpe oak is one more foothold for a species the wild is losing

Colonists knew the shrub as fever bush and wild allspice

the aromatic foliage is toxic if eaten and unrelated to culinary star anise

gray santolina

Cryptomeria japonica 'Lemonade' Gulfstream Nursery California Laurel or Myrtlewood isA small, slow Japanese cedar that flushes the color of cold lemonade in spring, pale, almost translucent yellow, then settles into soft chartreuse through summer. The foliage stays juvenile throughout, fine and feathery rather than the awl shaped scale of a mature Cryptomeria, which gives 'Lemonade' a softer presence than most gardeners expect of a conifer. This is texture you can run a hand through. 'Lemonade' is dwarf, or close enough to it, growing