See text Cleyera is a plant genus consisting of 21 species[1] of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia.

[2] 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.

The plants grow densely upright with low spreading-branch habit, round-shaped form, and can be kept compact by occasionally tip-cutting.

Very fragrant small creamy white to pale yellow flowers bloom in early summer with petals free or scarcely coalesced.