From skimmi, the Japanese name.

Evergeen, mostly aromatic shrubs or small trees with bracted shoots. New growth becoming grey to yellow. Leaves simple, alternate, entire, in clusters at the shoot tips and dotted with translucent glands. Flower clusters terminal. Flowers mostly unisexual, the sexes on different plants, small, white or yellow, occasionally pink. Fruit fleshy, 1-4-seeded, red or black.

Grown for the attractive fruit, the male plants for the many fragrant flowers.

Seed or cuttings.

Leaves simple, broad; fertile stamens 5.

4 species from China, Japan and the Himalaya.

Brown (1980).

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Rutaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.