| Landscape | Widely used as an ornamental plant and sometimes grown indoors as bonsai. |
| Pests | Cottony cushion scale and sac fungus. |
| Notable Specimens | Centennial Conservatory, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. |
| Leaf Description | The leaves are spirally arranged or whorled, simple, with an entire or waved margin. |
| Flower Description | The often sweetly scented flowers are produced singly or in umbels or corymbs, each flower with five sepals and five petals. |
| Fruit Description | The fruit is a woody seed capsule, which bursts on ripening to release the numerous seeds. The seeds are coated with a sticky resinous substance. |
| Colour Description | Leaves are green. Flowers are white. |
| Texture Description | Leaves are glossy. Bark is smooth. |
