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Buxus macowanii
Also called Box Wattle, African Box, Cape Box Wood, Small Leaved Box
Buxus macowanii, a.k.a. Cape box, is an evergreen species of boxwood endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in two disjunct populations - in coastal forest and shady ravines from the Eastern Cape to southern Natal, and in the Waterberg of the central Transvaal. The genus Buxus, comprising more than 100 species, is found worldwide, but is absent from Australia.
Cape box is a small, evergreen, slow-growing tree reaching about 10m in height, with glabrous, opposite and entire leaves, some 2.5 cm long. Fruit spherical and trilete, crowned by the 3 persistent styles or horns.
Buxus arborea · Balearic boxwood · Buxus citrifolia · Box · Harland's Boxwood · Buxus hildebrandtii · Liukiu Boxwood · Littleleaf boxwood · Large-leaved box · Buxus nyasica · Buxus obtusifolia · Common box
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buxus macowanii 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.
