Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock and other acid-loving plants

and other acid-loving plants

In spring the branches hang with the classic fetterbush bells

We grow Oglethorpe oak because someone must

the bright fruit standing out cleanly against the deep foliage

and asks little once settled

Ruscus aculeatus 26/4 Restock and other acid-loving plantsRuscus aculeatus, Butcher's Broom, is a low evergreen shrub of the asparagus family, native to the woodlands of southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, and reaching north into the milder parts of the British Isles. What look like glossy, spine tipped leaves are not leaves at all but flattened stems called cladodes, which take over the work of photosynthesis while the true leaves are reduced to tiny scales. The generic name comes from