| 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 aternate, oblanceolate to obovate-oblanceolate, most 6-13cm long x 1-3cm wide, dark green and glossy; flowers yellow, clustered in leaf axils, ~7mm wide; drupes black, oval, 9-12mm long x 6-8mm wide, | |