Golden Spreader Eurya. I brought this selection back from Japan around 2002. Its Japanese name translates to 'Golden Spreader', but left to its own designs it can grow rather upright. Euryas are similar to Loropetalum in growth habit, in that they will grow somewhat spreading in their juvenile form, but then after a few years they will take off with some quite vertical branches, but it can be easily kept in bounds with some judicial pruning. It is quite a stunning variegation which one can see from the pictures. This cultivar has an irregular gold splash variegation which is quite outstanding and very stable; although, one can expect a few green shoots which should be pruned out. Its leaves are broader than those of 'Moutiers' and overall are slightly larger. It has the same malodorous small cream-white flowers hanging under its branches in the spring. Many object to the smell, but I have no problem with it. The plant is too nice to be this fussy about the smell for a short time in the spring. And being deer resistant, it overcomes any other fault that it may possess. This genus was formerly in the Camellia family Theaceae but has been reclassified into the Pentaphylacaceae family which also includes the genera Ternstroemia and Cleyera, also moved here from the family Theaceae.
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