Details for: NA 84860, Buxus sempervirens L., 'Belleville'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Buxus sempervirens L.
Cultivar:
'Belleville'
Origin:
–
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Dec 2017
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Buxus sempervirens L.
Cultivar:
'Belleville'
Origin:
–
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
21 Dec 2017
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Shrub
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Belleville'
Type: Cultivar name

NA 84860
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
Full name as recorded at U.S. National Arboretum: Buxus sempervirens 'Belleville'. The parent plant is a 1985 propagation from an existing Longwood Gardens accession, almost certainly their 1956-0368, the original accession of this cultivar. Named by Mr R. J. Seibert of Longwood Gardens, who obtained the plant in 1956 from Mrs E. W. Seibert; she had gotten her plant from Mr Nick Bassler, a nurseryman near Belleville, Illinois in 1931. The original plant was said to be located 0.5 miles south of Scott Air Force Base on Route 2 in Belleville, Illinois, just east of St. Louis, Missouri. The plant was noted for its unusual cold hardiness in that location, with green winter foliage and no winter injury in 1962-63, when all other boxwood were damaged. Form received: rooted cutting.
Buxus sempervirens L.
Genus:
Buxus
Family:
Buxaceae
Nomen number:

8212
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:983. 1753
Verified:
09/09/1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Buxus sempervirens L. f. sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens L. var. sempervirens

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Buxus colchica Pojark.
Buxus hyrcana Pojark.
Buxus myrtifolia Lam.
Buxus sempervirens L. f. myrtifolia (Lam.) C. K. Schneid.
Buxus sempervirens L. f. pendula (Dallim.) Rehder
Buxus sempervirens L. f. prostrata (Bean) Rehder
Buxus sempervirens L. var. myrtifolia (Lam.) Sweet
Buxus sempervirens L. var. pendula Dallim.
Buxus sempervirens L. var. prostrata Bean

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbox  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishboxtree  1Batdorf, L. R. 2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
Englishboxwood  11961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
Englishboxwoodtree  1Batdorf, L. R. 2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
EnglishCaucasian boxwood  1Batdorf, L. R. 2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
Englishcommon box  1Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Englishcommon boxwood  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
EnglishEuropean box  1Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
EnglishFrench boxwood  1Batdorf, L. R. 2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
EnglishPersian boxwood  1Batdorf, L. R. 2004. Boxwood: An illustrated encyclopedia
EnglishTurkish boxwood  1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Portuguese (Brazil)árvore-da-caixa  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)buxinho  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)buxo  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Swedishbuxbom  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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