Leucothoe racemosa 25/12 Restock a seventeenth-century Moravian Jesuit who

a seventeenth-century Moravian Jesuit who worked as a pharmacist and naturalist in the Philippines and wrote widely about Asian plants

the same clan as hibiscus

playful edge to a plant usually grown for rigid formality

this species asks for the classic camellia site: dappled shade

so a child can rearrange a whole raceme

Leucothoe racemosa 25/12 Restock a seventeenth-century Moravian Jesuit whoLeucothoe racemosa, the sweetbells of Eastern wetland edges, is a fine native shrub too seldom planted. Found wild across the eastern United States in acidic woodland soils that stay damp but never flood, the plant grows upright and loosely branched to six or eight feet, deciduous to semi evergreen depending on the winter. Botanists now file the species under the name Eubotrys racemosa, though the older Leucothoe is the name most gardeners still use.