A genus of 4 species of small, scented, evergreen shrubs and trees from the Himalayas east to China, Japan and SE asia. They are curious in that they are doiecious ( sexes on separate plants) monoecious, ( sexes on the same plant) or hermaphrodite ( flowers with both male and female plants) There are various named male and female clones and ours is a male clone, probably x confusa
