| Scientific Name: | Choisya x dewitteana 'Aztec Pearl' |
| Common Name: | Mexican mock orange |
| Family Name: | Rutaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Fragrance, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Specimen plant, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Trifoliate (ternate), Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Oblong, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets, most elliptic-oblanceolate, 5-10cm long x 0.8 to 1.5cm wide, margin serrulate, dark green, aromatic; flowers showy, 2-5cm wide, 5 white petals (pale pink in bud), 5 green sepals, orange fragrance, in corymb-like clusters, May-Jun. | |