Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch distinguished from the Japanese aucuba

distinguished from the Japanese aucuba chiefly by narrow leaves and fine hairs on the young shoots and flower stalks

shrugging off frost and cold that would cut down more tender kin

Set this narrow-leaved aucuba in part to full shade in good

'Winter's Hope'

Bouvardia ternifolia Richard Lynch distinguished from the Japanese aucubaBouvardia ternifolia, the firecracker bush, is a compact, heat loving shrub of the southwestern United States and Mexico, hung from late spring to frost with clusters of long, slender, scarlet red tubular flowers. Few plants pull hummingbirds in like this one: the bright tubes are pitched exactly for their bills, and the bloom keeps coming through the hottest months when little else holds color. Whorls of narrow leaves clothe a tidy, two to three foot