Boxwood
Buxus
Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box and boxwood.
They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs and small trees, growing to 2–12 m (rarely 15 m) tall. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, and leathery; they are small in most species, typically 1.5–5 cm long and 0.3–2.5 cm broad, but up to 11 cm long and 5 cm broad in B. macrocarpa. The flowers are small and yellow-green, monoecious with both sexes present on a plant. The fruit is a small capsule 0.5–1.5 cm long (to 3 cm in B. macrocarpa), containing several small seeds.
Diseases Affecting Boxwood
Boxwood Blight
Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum infects all aboveground portions of boxwood, but does not appear to infect the roots. Initial symptoms appear as dark or light brown spots or lesions on the leaves. These lesions often have dark borders. Spots enlarge and then coalesce, often with a concentric pattern or a zonate appearance. Infected leaves then turn brown…
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Insects Affecting Boxwood
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