Skimmia japonica (f)

A variable, evergreen, densely-branched, dome-shaped shrub, low and creeping or erect, from 0.5m to 7m in height (but typically up to 1.5m in cultivation), with slightly aromatic, dark green, leathery, obovate to elliptic leaves. Fragrant white flowers in spring, sometimes flushed pink or red on the outside, appear in panicles at the ends of branches. Female plants, if pollinated, then produce brilliantly bright red fruits, 8mm across, which usually last until the next flowers appear the following spring