Hosoba Hoshifu Variegated Aucuba (Japanese Laurel) – 3 Gallon Pot

One of the most attractive and showy plants in our shade gardens, and ideal for providing a tropical flare to a garden, ‘Hosoba Hoshifu’ Aucuba is a female selection with evergreen leaves that have some of the brightest variegation we’ve seen. The narrow, 7 inch long deep green leaves have sawtooth margins and look as though they’ve been heavily speckled and splotched with neon yellow paint. With a male selection present, such as ‘Mr. Gold Strike’, she’ll produce large, jelly bean sized bright red berries that persist through the winter. Exceptionally easy to grow and low-maintenance, this is one plant that will light up your shade garden with little to no effort at all. Oh, almost forgot…this plant can also be grown indoors year round as a houseplant!

Growing 5 to 6 feet tall and wide and handling dense shade to part shade, Hosoba Hoshifu Aucuba is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings, or as a hedge in landscape borders, home foundation plantings, and under the canopies of large shade trees and in other shady areas. A fine addition to woodland or shade gardens, Asian theme gardens, tropical-look gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs). What’s more…you can grow this flashy beauty year-round indoors as a houseplant!