Phoebe sp. Vines nothing like the spiny evergreen

nothing like the spiny evergreen foliage most people picture on a holly

and drought-tolerant in shade once established

shady paths

and in a sense they do

A note worth making: cassia cinnamons like this one are naturally higher in coumarin than Ceylon cinnamon

Phoebe sp. Vines nothing like the spiny evergreenThis Phoebe is a broadleaf evergreen tree in the laurel family, Lauraceae, and a relative of the redbay and the avocado in the genus Persea. The genus Phoebe gathers more than fifty species of evergreen trees and shrubs across subtropical and tropical Asia, long known in China as nanmu and prized for hard, fine textured, aromatic timber used in fine furniture and building since ancient times. The Woodlanders plant grew from seed received from Nanjing,