Sarcococca wallichii Native lending some scientific texture to

lending some scientific texture to a tradition many centuries old

which overlaps in bloom and shares the taste for moist

cinnamon-to-tan bark clothes mature trunks

Site where the fragrant bloom can be enjoyed

The man who named the tree for him in 1860 was his own assistant

Sarcococca wallichii Native lending some scientific texture toAmong the winter flowering shade shrubs, few reward a cold season garden as generously as Sarcococca wallichii, the Himalayan sweet box. The genus name joins the Greek sarco, flesh, with kokkos, berry, a nod to the fleshy fruits that follow the flowers, while the species honors Nathaniel Wallich, the Danish surgeon botanist who superintended the Calcutta botanic garden in the early nineteenth century and sent so many Himalayan plants west. Sarcococca