Variable, spreading to erect, slightly aromatic shrub to 3 m tall. Leaves 7-10 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, ovate to obovate with translucent dots below. Flower clusters terminal, males and females on different plants. Fruits round, bright red, about 1 cm wide.
E Asia
Source: (2002). Rutaceae. In: . 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.
Skimmia japonica 'Bronze Knight'
Male plant with winter reddening of buds and upper leaves.
Originated in Waterer's Nursery, UK.
Upright and densely foliaged. A male clone. Flowers strongly scented.
Originated in Japan, introduced to the West by Robert Fortune in 1861.
Female clone with slender, pointed leaves and producing fruit prolifically.
Introduced c. 1934 by Nyman's Nursery, UK.