Texas Torchwood
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Texas
Full Sun
Part Sun/Shade
Low
Evergreen
Birds
About This Plant
Understory shade or partial sun. Evergreen, with glossy compound leaves that perfume the garden with the fragrance of rue. Torchwood is dense and hedge-like, making a rounded shrub resembling boxwood. Tiny black fruit appears in autumn.
Torchwood is a tough plant in clay or sand, but rare in the commercial trade; look for it at native plant vendors in central Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. It is relatively untested in rocky soils north of San Antonio, though it withstood icy 9-degree temperatures without serious damage in 2021.
Maintenance
In sun, torchwood forms a dense rounded shrub that needs little care or shaping, and once established it needs no supplemental water either. It is fairly slow growing.
Features
This plant goes well with
Helietta parvifolia
Ilex cornuta
Zanthoxylum fagara
Esenbeckia runyonii
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