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Buxus citrifolia is a large shrub or small tree from the Buxus (boxwood) family, native to tropical dry forests of northern South America and Panama, reaching 3 to 5 metres. It is grown only rarely, so care advice is mostly general and it is not a typical garden box plant.
Buxus citrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Buxaceae. It is a large shrub or small tree native to Colombia, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela. It grows in lowland tropical dry forest up to 1,000 metres elevation.
The hermaphrodite shrub, having both the male and female reproductive organs in the same individual, is 3–5 m tall with a 5 cm diameter at breast height. Twigs are free from hair and somewhat tetragonal, while the angle ridges are prominent. The leaves are elliptic to narrowly elliptic-ovate while being wedge-shaped or round at the base. The leaves are 5–12 cm long, 2–5 cm wide having the sub-3-veined from the base with the outer 2 nerves forming submarginal veins. The petiole margined and 2–5 mm long.
Buxus arborea · Balearic boxwood · 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 citrifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
