Plant Details - Wax Myrtle
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- Sunlight: full sun/partial shade
- Description: This is a broadleaf evergreen shrub that grows quickly, sometimes 5' tall and wide in one season. The leaves are glossy green and it flowers in the spring, but the flowers are rather inconspicuous. It has grayish white fruits in the late summer and winter that are heavily coated with wax and massed on the stems of the previous season's growth. The foliage and berries are pleasantly aromatic, and the wax was used for making candles in Colonial times. This shrub can be used as a screening plant or informal hedge, and can be pruned up to make a small tree.
- Size: 15'-20' high and wide.
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