Dichroa febrifuga Allen Bush and other pollinators to a

and other pollinators to a plant that asks remarkably little in return

so site where flower and fruit can both be enjoyed

The display is subtle rather than showy

nearly unbranched stems

Dichroa febrifuga Allen Bush and other pollinators to aFew garden shrubs carry a resume like Dichroa febrifuga. In the ground this is a handsome, medium evergreen with lacecap heads of small blue flowers in late spring and, better still, clusters of berries in fall that ripen to an almost unreal iridescent, metallic blue, the kind of structural color usually reserved for beetles and tropical birds. A relatively recent introduction from China, the plant sits close enough to Hydrangea, in the family