Skimmia japonica (m)

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