Use white beautyberry massed for a luminous late-season effect
shrubby forms of the related Distylium myricoides that have lately become popular
among the largest fruit in the whole genus
a living watercolor for the woodland floor
the petals splashed with irregular white
Acer micranthum David Geiger Use white beautyberry massed forAmong the snakebark maples, Acer micranthum ranks with the most delicate, a small, sometimes shrubby tree from the mountains of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku, where the Japanese know the plant as the Komine maple. The species has no settled English name, and that quiet anonymity suits a tree grown for refinement rather than show. James Harris, in The Gardener's Guide to Growing Maples, calls this "a very elegant maple with attractive autumn tints," and