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Buxus balearica
Also called Balearic Box, Minorca Box, Spanish Boxwood, Giant Boxtree
Buxus balearica, the Balearic boxwood, is a shrub or small evergreen tree typical of the Mediterranean forest. It grows wild in Algeria, Morocco, the Island of Sardinia and Spain.
In Spain the Balearic boxwood can be found in very fragmented populations in Eastern Andalusia and the Balearic Islands.
Buxus arborea · Buxus citrifolia · Box · Harland's Boxwood · Buxus hildebrandtii · Liukiu Boxwood · Cape box · Littleleaf boxwood · Large-leaved box · Buxus nyasica · Buxus obtusifolia · Common box
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buxus balearica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
