Scientific Name: Daphne laureola
Common Name: spurge laurel
Family Name: Thymelaeaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen, Invasive plant
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Dense
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Floristry, Medicinal plant
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Oblanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Flowers clustered, Green, Mar
Fruit: Drupe, Black, Jun-Jul
Key ID Features:
Leaves oblanceolate to obovate-oblanceolate, smooth, dark green and glossy, up to 13cm long x 3cm wide; flowers yellow, clustered in leaf axils, about 7mm wide.