Phoebe sheareri seed

LATIN NAME: Phoebe sheareri

COMMON NAME: Shearer’s Phoebe

The shearer’s phoebe is a handsome, upright, tall, evergreen tree of the warm forests, and its fine, oval or oblong, glossy, dark-green leaves and its small, inconspicuous, yellowish-green flowers, followed by the small, oval, dark-blue, fleshy fruits, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, tall, evergreen tree, reaching up to thirty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the alternate, oval or oblong, pointed, glossy, dark-green leaves and, through the early summer, the small, inconspicuous, yellowish-green flowers, followed by the small, oval, dark-blue, fleshy, single-seeded fruits. It is a species of the flowering tree in the laurel family, and it is native to the warm forests of the central and southern China, while it is treasured for its fine, fragrant, valuable wood, and it is known as the shearer’s phoebe.

In the laurel family it is the glossy, fragrant-wooded phoebe of the central and southern forests, a tree whose fine timber has been prized in the region for the ages.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The shearer’s phoebe holds a place of honour in the forestry papers of the region, and the fine, fragrant, beautifully grained wood has been one of the most valued timbers of the warm forests. The botanists have mapped its place in the laurel family and the regional flora, and the natural-product chemists have studied the aromatic parts and their volatile oils. The conservationists have kept the much-reduced forests close to the centre of their work, and the native trees are best left to their forests.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the warm garden, the shearer’s phoebe is the glossy, fragrant tree of the big garden. Its small flowers feed the insects, its dark-blue fruits feed the birds, and the evergreen crown gives the garden shade and shelter through the year. The fragrant, valuable wood has served the fine building and the fine furniture of the region, and the tree grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground. Glossy, fragrant and valuable.

These seeds are best sown fresh — clean them off the small, dark-blue fruits and sow them straight away at a shallow depth in pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first leaves will be along in good time.