Landscape Plants

Two specis of evergreen, low growing plants with tailing stems, one is native to North America (M. repens) and the other (M. undulata) to Japan.  Leaves opposite, round-ovate, glossy.   Flowers in pairs, white, fragrant.  Fruit a berry-like drupe, scarlet or rarely white.
Mitchella: for Dr. John Mitchell (1676-1768), correspondent of Linnaeus and botanist in Virginia.