Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock few citrus are so useful

few citrus are so useful in so little space

vigorous evergreen frame clothed in glossy dark foliage

in time an open shrub or small narrow tree

after intensive searches of the formerly known and likely sites around Nashville

makes immediate sense in bloom: the flowers are essentially all stamens

Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock few citrus are so usefulDirca palustris, the leatherwood, is a quiet native shrub with a hidden trick: branches so supple and tough they can be bent, twisted, even tied in a knot without snapping. That remarkable pliability, born of unusually soft, low lignin wood, gave rise to the names leatherwood and ropebark, and made the bark a favorite of Native peoples for cordage. A slow, rounded, understory shrub of rich eastern woodlands, leatherwood is seldom offered and quietly