Xylosma congestum occurs as genus of between 85-10Metal money of evergreen shrubs and trees in the family Salicaceae.

A genus is preponderantly indigene to the tropics, from a Caribbean, Central America, northern South America, the Pacific Islands, southern Asia and northern Australasia, but using deuce coinage, X. congestum & X. japonicum, around caring-temperate eastern Asia (China, Korea and Japan).

A leaves are alternate, elementary, entire or even finely toothed, Two-10 cm yearn. A flowers are little, xanthous, produced in racemes 1-Three cm hanker, sustaining the heavy scent. A fruit is a small purple-purplish-black berry 5-1Millimetre across.

;Selected species Xylosma congestum bahamensis (Britt.) Standl. Xylosma congestum buxifolia Gray (Mucha-gente) Xylosma congestum (Lour.) Merrill (Shiny Xylosma) Xylosma congestum crenatum St. John (Sawtooth Logwood) Xylosma congestum flexuosum (HBK) Hemsl. (Brushholly) Xylosma congestum hawaiiense Seem. (Maua or even Hawaii Brushholly) Xylosma congestum heterophyllum (H.Karst.) Gilg. Xylosma congestum japonicum (Thunb.) The.Gr. Xylosma congestum pachyphylla Urban (Spiny Logwood) Xylosma congestum pseudosalzmannii Xylosma congestum schaefferioides Gray (White Logwood) Xylosma congestum schwaneckeana Urban (Schwaneck's Logwood)

Cultivation and uses
A independent utilize for the genus is when hedge plants among gardeners in desert and chaparral climates. Xylosma congestum, a Shiny Xylosma, is the species unremarkably seen inside garden hedges & in roadscapes.