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Buxus sempervirens L.

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Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Buxus sempervirens L.
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Buxus sempervirens

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sempervirens

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Buxus sempervirens L.

Evergreen, much-branched, monoecious shrub or small tree up to 3-(8) m high. Shoots puberulent when young, becoming glabrous, 4-ridged. Lvs puberulent when young, becoming glabrous except near mid-vein, ovate or elliptic, retuse, obtuse at base and subsessile or very shortly petiolate, dark glossy green above, paler below, 15-30 mm long; lf margin entire, somewhat revolute. Racemes congested in lf axils, many-flowered, c. 5 mm diam.; ♂ fls with 4 stamens and 4 calyx segments; ♂ and ♀ fls bracteate. Capsule glabrous, ovoid-oblong, often veined, 6-10 mm long with 3 slightly divergent horns (remnants of styles); seeds ovoid-oblong, glossy black, 5-6 mm long.

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Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens L.

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Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Buxus sempervirens L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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