Cleyera japonica 'Fortunei' 24/9 Restock and the toughness is all

and the toughness is all there too: this is a near-indestructible evergreen for difficult

Native to the cool mountain forests of central and southern China

The fruit is also genuinely seedy

One of the hardier evergreen citrus

Cleyera japonica 'Fortunei' 24/9 Restock and the toughness is allCleyera japonica was for generations placed in the tea family, the Theaceae, alongside camellia and tea themselves, and the resemblance still reads in the glossy, leathery, deep green leaves. Later molecular study moved the genus out of that family and into the Pentaphylacaceae, so the old tea family listing has since been dropped, though the kinship of appearance remains. In the plant's native Japan the species carries a sacred weight few garden