Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock after intensive searches of the

after intensive searches of the formerly known and likely sites around Nashville

119 is one of the most refined of the group

where the plant has been cultivated for well over a thousand years

few citrus are so useful in so little space

along a pond or ditch

Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock after intensive searches of theDirca palustris, the leatherwood, is a quiet native shrub with a hidden trick: branches so supple and tough they can be bent, twisted, even tied in a knot without snapping. That remarkable pliability, born of unusually soft, low lignin wood, gave rise to the names leatherwood and ropebark, and made the bark a favorite of Native peoples for cordage. A slow, rounded, understory shrub of rich eastern woodlands, leatherwood is seldom offered and quietly