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Skimmia reevesiana

(Reeves Skimmia)

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Reeves Skimmia

Description

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Family Rutaceae

The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.

Genus Skimmia

Glabrous shrubs . Leaves simple , petiolate , alternate, glandular-punctate. Flowers polygamous, clustered in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5-partite. Petals 4-5, oblong . Stamens 4-5. Ovary 2-5-locular; style stout or absent, stigma 2-5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, fleshy .

A genus of 7 or 8 species distributed in the Himalayas, E. Asia, Japan and Phillipine Islands. The genus has a strong musky smell.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Mounding

Flowers: Flower Color: White • Flower Conspicuous: Tiny star-shaped flowers grow in clusters

Foliage: Deep green, leathery, narrow • Foliage Shape: Lance-shaped • Normal foliage color: Green • Underside foliage: Green • Juvenile foliage: Green • Mature foliage: Green • New foliage: Green • Spring foliage: Green • Summer foliage: Green • Fall foliage: Green • Winter foliage: Green

Size/Age/Growth

Growth Rate: Slow Growing • Size: Slow-growing to 2 ft . high, 2 to 3 ft. wide.

Landscaping

Care: Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system . Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring .

Biology

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Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Partial to full shade

Moisture: Water Requirements: Keep surface of soil moist, but not soggy.

Temperature: Heat Zones: High: 9 (>120 to 150 days) Low:7 (>60 to 90 days) (map) • Cold Hardiness: High:9 (20 to 30 F) Low:7 (0 to 10 F) (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Ilex reevesiana Fortune • Skimmia Japonica Reevesiana

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Skimmia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

S. japonica (Japanese Skimmia) · S. japonica 'Formanii' (Japanese Skimmia) · S. japonica 'Fructo-Albo' (Japanese Skimmia) · S. japonica 'Rubella' (Japanese Skimmia) · S. japonica 'Thereza' (Japanese Skimmia 'thereza') · S. reevesiana (Reeves Skimmia) · S. 'Olympic Fire' (Skimmia 'olympic Fire')

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 16, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Skimmia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 10. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/21/2012