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Buxus adalah genus dari sekitar tujuh puluh spesies dalam keluarga Buxaceae. Nama umumnya adalah boksus atau merupuk. Di Indonesia ia terkenal digunakan sebagai pohon bonsai [1] [2] [3] Beberapa spesies merupuk asli Indonesia antara lain Buxus rolfei, Buxus rivularis, Buxus holttumiana dan masih banyak lagi.
Buxaceae adalah keluarga kecil yang terdiri dari enam genus dan sekitar 123 spesies tumbuhan berbunga yang diketahui. [2] Mereka berupa semak dan pohon kecil dengan sebaran kosmopolitan.
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They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs and small trees, growing to 2–12 m (rarely 15 m) tall. The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, and leathery; they are small in most species, typically 1.5–5 cm long and 0.3-2.5 cm broad, but up to 11 cm long and 5 cm broad in B. macrocarpa. The flowers are small and yellow-green, monoecious with both s...
The genus splits into three genetically distinct sections, each section in a different region, with the Eurasian species in one section, the African (except northwest Africa) and Madagascan species in the second, and the American species in the third. The African and American sections are genetically closer to each other than to the Eurasian sectio...
Boxes are commonly used for hedges and topiaries, and the dense wood is valued for wood carving and the making of wood type for printing. The inconspicuous flowers mean that boxes are usually only grown for their foliage. Given time, neat low hedging can grow to enormous size, as at Powis Castle in north Wales. Often, however, they are kept dwarfed...
Foliage problems
Curled leaves-- Boxwood Psyllid Stippling-- Mites Bronzing-- Winter damage, Volutella blights, Phytophthora
Balthazar, M. von, Peter K. Endress, P. K., and Qiu, Y.-L. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships in Buxaceae based on nuclear internal transcribed spacers and plastid ndhF sequences. Int. J. Plant Sci. 161(5): 785–792 (available online).
- Buxus
- slow
- Leaves often accumulate in branch crotches
- Fibrous on the surface with deep heavy roots
Buxus 'Green Velvet' or Green Velvet Boxwood is a hybrid boxwood cultivar. Its parent species are B. sempervirens × B. microphylla var. koreana . It is a broad, compact shrub that grows to 3 to 4 feet (0.91 to 1.22 m) tall and 3 to 4 feet (0.91 to 1.22 m) wide.
Buxus obtusifolia is a species of plant in the family Buxaceae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania. Buxus obtusifolia is usually restricted to small dry wooded bush land areas extending from southeast Kenya to southeast Tanzania.
Buxus sempervirens, the common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.
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