Quercus myrtifolia 26/6 Restock Photos courtesy of Ray Matthews

Photos courtesy of Ray Matthews and Damon Waitt

The plant flowers and fruits prolifically

Passiflora 'Amethyst' is one of the most rewarding of the ornamental passionflowers

and unbothered by heat

Quercus myrtifolia 26/6 Restock Photos courtesy of Ray MatthewsMyrtle oak takes the name from the leaf, small and leathery and rolled at the edges like a true myrtle, which is about as far from the broad, lobed oak of the schoolbook as the genus travels. Quercus myrtifolia is a creature of the Florida scrub and the sand pine ridges along the southeastern coast, the bright, fast draining places where the salt comes in on the wind and the soil is mostly quartz. They stay small there, a dense evergreen shrub or low