Buxus sempervirens L.
Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens, commonly known as the common box, European box, or boxwood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia. It grows 1 to 9 meters tall with a trunk up to 20 centimeters in diameter. The leaves are green to yellow-green, oval, and arranged in opposite pairs along the stems. The flowers are inconspicuous but highly scented, greenish-yellow, with no petals, and insect pollinated. The fruit is a three-lobed capsule containing 3-6 seeds.
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Buxus sempervirens contains steroidal alkaloids such as cyclobuxine, flavonoids, and other compounds like chlorophyll, wax, resin, lignin, and minerals. The leaves contain alkaloids, oils, and tannin; the bark contains chlorophyll, wax, resin, lignin, and minerals; and the wood oil has medicinal properties.
The plant is used for ornamental purposes, particularly in topiary and hedges due to its small leaves, evergreen nature, and tolerance of close shearing. Wood from Buxus sempervirens is very hard and heavy, making it ideal for cabinet-making, crafting of flutes and oboes, engraving, marquetry, woodturning, tool handles, mallet heads, and as a substitute for ivory. It is also used in traditional medicine to treat various ailments such as gout, urinary tract infections, intestinal worms, chronic skin problems, syphilis, hemorrhoids, epilepsy, headache, and piles. It has been used as a substitute for quinine to treat malaria but is rarely used today due to side effects and better alternatives. In Turkey, the leaves are consumed as tea for antihelminthic, diaphoretic, and cholagogue purposes. Additionally, the leaves have been used as an auburn hair dye.
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1 to 9 meters tall
Greenish-yellow
Soils derived from chalk, limestone, usually as an understorey in forests of larger trees, most commonly associated with European beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests, but also sometimes in open dry montane scrub, particularly in the Mediterranean region.
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