Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible Through the warm season the

Through the warm season the shrub opens single white flowers

give room for the tall stems

more pointed foliage and a somewhat tougher constitution

lending a planting a settled sense of place

and treat the Neches River rose mallow as a bottomland native at heart

Distylium myricoides (Piroche form) Edible Through the warm season theDistylium myricoides belongs to the witch hazel family, Hamamelidaceae, an evergreen cousin of the fragrant winter witch hazels, though the kinship shows in the flowers rather than the leaves. The Piroche form is a distinct, low slung selection of the species, chosen for a broad, spreading habit and strong horizontal branching that make the plant read more as living groundwork than as an upright shrub. Where the typical isu tree arches upward into a