Skimmia japonica var. intermedia ("Tsurushikimi")

Japanese name: ツルシキミ （蔓樒、蔓梻）
Scientific name: Skimmia japonica var. intermedia

[Overview]
An evergreen shrub 30–100 cm tall, found in the mountains.
The lower part of the trunk creeps along the ground and branches freely.
The leaves are alternate and simple, clustered in a whorl-like arrangement, oblanceolate-elliptic, 4–6 cm long and 1–2.5 cm wide.
The upper surface of the leaves is glossy, and the underside has oil dots.
The leaf margin is nearly entire.
Dioecious.
Both male and female flowers are borne in large numbers in corymbose panicles at the branch tips, and are white and 4-petaled.
The fruit is a spherical drupe that ripens red.

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