Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock vigorous evergreen frame clothed in

vigorous evergreen frame clothed in glossy dark foliage

along a pond or ditch

and variegated forms

nutty treasure inside

Dirca palustris 25/5 Restock vigorous evergreen frame clothed inDirca 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