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Shrubs <br />Ardisia crenata — coral ardisia <br />• Small shrub tolerating deep shade <br />• Leaves alternate, shiny, leathery <br />• Leaf edges crisped, or scalloped <br />• Flowers white in axillary clusters <br />• Fruits bright red, in drooping clusters <br />Ardisia elliptica — shoebutton ardisia <br />• Glabrous evergreen shrub to 15 ft tall <br />• Leaves alternate, entire, gland -dotted below <br />• New foliage often reddish <br />• Flowers mauve, in clusters at leaf axils <br />• Fruits black when ripe <br />Colubrina asiatica — lather leaf <br />• Sprawling evergreen shrub to 20+ ft tall <br />• Stems glabrous, many branched <br />• Leaves alternate, shiny, ovate, serrate <br />• Flowers tiny, greenish white, in leaf axils <br />• Fruit a brown capsule with 3 grayish seeds <br />Ligustrum sinense — Chinese privet <br />• Semi -evergreen shrub to 15 ft tall <br />• Twigs densely pubescent <br />• Leaves opposite, small, dark green in wild <br />• Leaves variegated in cultivation <br />• Flowers white, small, many, odorous <br />8 <br />