Cleyera
Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 21 species of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.
The botanical name is derived from Andrew Cleyer, a Dutch physician of the seventeenth century. The plants are grown for specimen accent hedges or mixed border landscapes. Though they are slow-growing, they can eventually reach 6–10 ft. The plants grow densely upright with low spreading-branch habit, round-shaped form, and can be kept compact by occasionally tip-cutting. Leaves are glossy, oval-shaped, 6–10 cm long with dark-green and bronze-red to burgundy tinted young leaves. Very fragrant small creamy white to pale yellow flowers bloom in early summer with petals free or scarcely coalesced. The pollen can cause mild allergy symptoms. Fruits are spherical, greenish yellow, turning red to black.
Species
; Accepted species:Cleyera albopunctata Krug & Urb.Cleyera bolleana KobuskiCleyera cernua KobuskiCleyera costaricensis KobuskiCleyera cuspidata H.T.Chang & S.H.Shi Cleyera ekmanii Kobuski Cleyera incornuta Y.C.Wu Cleyera integrifolia Choisy Cleyera japonica Thunb. sakakiCleyera longicarpa L.K. Ling Cleyera matudai Kobuski Cleyera neibensis AlainCleyera nimanimae Krug & Urb. Cleyera obovata H.T.Chang Cleyera obscurinervia H.T.Chang Cleyera orbicularis Alain Cleyera pachyphylla Chun ex H.T.Chang Cleyera panamensis Kobuski Cleyera revoluta Kobuski Cleyera serrulata Choisy Cleyera skutchii Kobuski Cleyera tacanensis Kobuski Cleyera ternstroemioides Kobuski Cleyera theoides Choisy Cleyera vaccinioides Kobuski Cleyera velutina B.M.Barthol. Cleyera yangchunensis L.K.Ling; Unresolved species:Cleyera dubia Champ. ex Benth.Cleyera fragrans Champ. ex Benth.Cleyera gymnanthera Wight & Arn.Cleyera millettii Hook. & Arn.Cleyera pentapetala Spreng.
; Names brought to synonymy:Cleyera elegans, a synonym for ''Freziera undulata''