| Author | Thunberg | |
| Distribution | So far as is known, there is only one specimen from a non-cultivated plant: Orange County, Battle Park on campus of UNC Chapel Hill. Other collections from Craven, Forsyth, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties are all from cultivated plants.
Native of Japan and southeastern Asia. | |
| Abundance | Very rare and possibly merely persistent; is not really established or reproducing on its own. | |
| Habitat | Small wooded floodplain of a creek. | |
| Phenology | | |
| Identification | This shrub's leaves are distinctive: about 4-5 inches long, elliptic, bluntly taper-pointed, and margins with about 5 small teeth (some leaves with mere suggestions of teeth). Thus, the leaves look rather like Basket Oak or Chestnut Oak, but with less well-developed teeth. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | | |
| Other Common Name(s) | Aucuba | |
| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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