High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aucuba japonica, the spotted laurel, is a shrub (1-5m) native to woods in lowland and mountains all over Japan and China. In rich forest soils of moist valleys, dense forests, thickets, by streams and near shaded moist rocks in China. The leaves are opposite, broad lanceolate, 5-8 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. Aucuba japonica are dioecious, they have separate male and female plants. The flowers are small, 4-8 mm diameter, with four purplish-brown petals; they are produced in clusters of 10-30 in a loose cyme. The fruit is a red berry approx. 1 cm diameter. They are often avoided by birds. They are a popular garden plant in the United Kingdom and western Europe. This shrub is also popular in the United States, where it is commonly referred to as the Gold Dust Plant.

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