Landscape Plants

Some 50 species of small deciduous and evergreen shrubs.  Leaves simple, alternate, rarely opposite, often leathery, usually having entire margins, petioles short of absent.  Flowers small, usually fragrant, calyx a cylindrical fleshy tube with 4 spreading lobes, colored mauve, white, sometime yellow or yellow-green, petals absent.  Fruit leathery or fleshy, yellow, red, black or orange, 1 seeded.  Native to Europe, north Africa, both temperate and subtropical Asia.
Daphne: for Daphne, the nymph changed by Appolo into Laurus nobilis, the bay tree.