![]() It can be grown as full shrub or limbed up to look like multi-trunk tree. Wax Myrtle can be used in woodland gardens or shrub borders, as a screen or informal hedge, wetland gardens, habitat restoration or on a bank for erosion control. Once established it is reasonably drought-tolerant and can withstand periodical flooding as well. Requires regular moisture to get established. Wax Myrtle prefers moist, acid soils but is adaptable to other conditions, including wet sites with poor drainage. Wax Myrtles tend to sucker, sometimes forming colonies in optimum growing conditions. It is shrub is also tolerant of high winds and salt spray. ![]() Prefers moist soil and full sun to part shade. Makes an excellent screen plant or a tall hedge. Female plants produce pale blue berries in the winter that were once used to make fragrant candles. Light olive-green foliage has a spicy fragrance. Pale blue berries occur on female plants. Southern Wax Myrtle is a multi-trunked, evergreen shrub that can reach 20 ft. Wax Myrtle is a multi-trunked, evergreen shrub, that can reach 20 ft. 2 The showy gray fruit are covered in an aromatic waxy coating. For more information about the care of these plants, read this article. 1 Wax Myrtles can be limbed up into a beautiful small evergreen tree, Reedville Fishermen’s Museum Shoreline Garden. This material was developed by Carol Ness as part of the Interactive Design and Development Project funded by the Kellogg Foundation.Also known as Southern Wax Myrtle, Southern Bayberry. Dwarf myrtle trees are small evergreen shrubs native to moist or dry sandy areas, though theyre adaptable to a variety of conditions. In addition to the salt, wet and dry soil tolerance, bayberries are grown for their aromatic leaves and its waxy, gray berries.īecause of their fragrance, the fruit were historically used in making barberry-scented candles. In terms of a garden bed, this may be a disadvantage. In terms of soil stabilization, this is an advantage. Inconspicuous flowers appear in early spring, followed by fruit in late summer through winter. The leaves are glossy green and typically 1 to 3 inches long and to inches wide, sometimes bigger (4 inches long and 2 inches wide). Both species will sucker and spread throughout a growing bed (especially northern bayberry). This broadleaf evergreen shrub or tree grows quickly to 15 to 20 feet high and wide. The berries are an excellent food source for birds. The waxy coating is used to make candles, scented by the fragrance of the crushed leaves. The fertilized female flowers are followed by tiny, round, waxy, gray fruits, which persist through winter. It is dioecious, with male and female catkins on separate plants. Both species fix nitrogen which means that bacteria that reside on roots can covert atmospheric (gaseous) nitrogen into a fertilizer form that plants can use. Wax Myrtle is a densely branching, evergreen shrub. The fruit display is showier on northern bayberry compared to southern waxmyrtle. Northern bayberry ( Myrica pensylvanica) is a large shrub with a similar culture to southern waxmyrtle but differs in its hardiness zone range which is zone 3 to 6. Alternatives:Ĭonsult local garden centers, historic or public gardens and arboreta regarding cultivars and related species that grow well in your area. pumila (Michx.) Small, dwarf bayberry, dwarf wax. Iron chlorosis is a problem in high pH soils. wax myrtle, with three varieties based on height of the plant, leaf shape. Test soil and adjust soil pH if it is too high. Range/Site Description: Streambanks, swamps, and seasonally wet areas in East Texas. ![]() Will generally produce more fruit when grown in poor soil. southern bayberry, wax myrtle Leaf Type: Evergreen Texas Native: Firewise: Tree Description: A shrub or small, multi-trunked tree to 20 feet tall and a trunk to 6' in diameter, with an open crown of light green foliage. Thrives in poor sandy or heavy clay soils. Plant both male and female plants for berries.Įxtremely adaptable. Suggested uses for this plant include border, massing, foundation, and screen. ![]() Soil Type: Sandy, loam, or clay Functions: This species tolerates wet and dry soils and females have a somewhat showy display of gray berries in the fall/winter. Southern waxmyrtle is a large evergreen shrub or small tree depending on how one prunes it.
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