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Southern Wax Myrtle is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The female plants give way to attractive clusters of waxy, pale blue berries in late summer, persisting through winter.
It is native to the coastal plain from southern New Jersey into the Florida Keys to eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma down into Central America. The leathery, shiny deep green leaves range from 1.5 to 4.5 inches long by 1/3 to 2 inches wide and have the wonderful bayberry fragrance when crushed.
24 Σεπ 2022 · The Southern Wax Myrtle, also known as the Bayberry, is a versatile evergreen shrub that thrives in a variety of habitats across Florida. Its adaptability allows it to flourish in coastal dunes, pine flatwoods, and wetland margins, making it a common sight in both natural and cultivated landscapes.
Myrica cerifera is a small evergreen tree or large shrub native to North and Central America and the Caribbean. Its common names include southern wax myrtle, southern bayberry, candleberry, bayberry tree, and tallow shrub. It has uses in the garden and for candlemaking, as well as a medicinal plant.
The flowers of the Waxmyrtle are fragrant but non-showy, with only the flowers on male plants (catkins to 1” long) displaying some color (a drab yellowish-green). They are apetalous. Male flowers have multiple stamens, while female flowers are a one-celled ovary. Flowers bloom in April.
1 Μαΐ 2023 · Wax myrtle (Myrica cerifera) is a small, broadleaf evergreen shrub that makes an excellent addition to almost any landscape. In the South they're popular grown as hedges, but these attractive trees can also be used as specimens. Read here about growing tips for wax myrtle trees and shrubs.
7 Φεβ 2019 · Southern Waxmyrtle is very tough and easily grown and can tolerate a variety of landscape settings from full sun to partial shade, wet swamplands or high, dry and alkaline areas. Growth is thin...
