Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock William Bartram

William Bartram

well-mannered groundcover for shade

longtime senior staff at Woodlanders

each carrying the clean lemon perfume that William Bartram praised as he wandered the southern woods

domed panicle is packed with fragrant flowers

Sebastiania schottiana 26/4 Restock William BartramSome plants arrive with a pedigree, and some arrive with a person. This one came to us from Ken Wurdack, a botanist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and his work centers on the systematics and evolution of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. He's the sort of botanist who describes entirely new genera in the tribe Hippomaneae, which happens to be the exact tribe Sebastiania sits in. So this is a spurge handed over by a man who