About the genus · Buxus
Buxus is a genus of about seventy species in the family Buxaceae. Common names include box and boxwood.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Buxus", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Buxus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”.
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Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Buxus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
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Related
Other Buxus 11 in the reference
Buxus balearica Balearic box Photo: CC BY, Yves Bas
Buxus harlandii Harland's boxwood Photo: CC0, author not stated
Buxus liukiuensis Liukiu boxwood Photo: CC BY, 如此甚好
Buxus microphylla Littleleaf boxwood Photo: CC BY, Marco Mussita
Buxus natalensis Box Wattle Photo: CC BY-SA, Rosemary Harrison Buxus rugulosa Buxaceae
Buxus sempervirens Box Photo: CC BY, Louis Aureglia
Buxus sinica Chinese boxwood Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te Hsu
Buxus vahlii Vahl's boxwood Photo: CC BY, MarinaNames & registers
The record
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