Aucuba japonica 'Golden King' Check with George Clethra tomentosa

Clethra tomentosa

blooming from late spring well into fall

Matt Welch found the original while working at the SFA Mast Arboretum and the Pineywoods Native Plant Center in Nacogdoches

According to Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

Give the plant room

Aucuba japonica 'Golden King' Check with George Clethra tomentosaThere is a strange romance buried in this plant's history, and 'Golden King' sits on the male side of it. Aucuba japonica reached England in 1783 as a single female, the yellow flecked gold dust shrub that Victorians went on to plant by the thousand. Aucuba carry their sexes on separate plants, and for eighty years every aucuba in the country was a clone of that one female, waiting on the famous red berries that never came, because Japan had sealed