The difference between boxwood and boxwood

1. Difference of blades

The leaves of boxwood are thin leathery, usually spoon-shaped, but also obovate or narrowly ovate. They are widest above the middle, about 2-4 cm long and 8-18 mm wide. The leaves are green and shiny, while the back is pale gray.

The leaves of boxwood are leathery, oblong, broadly obovate, broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, about 1.5-3.5 cm long and 0.8-2 cm wide.

2. Difference in appearance

Boxwood is a shrub, about 3-4 meters tall, with cylindrical branches and smaller branches that are quadrangular. It has short soft hairs at first, which fall off and become hairless later.

Boxwood is a small tree or shrub, about 1-6 meters tall, with cylindrical branches, grayish white in color, and quadrangular leaves, but either covered with short soft hairs or with opposite sides that are hairless.