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It is a small, compact, soft-wooded, dwarf shrub with
Unisexual flowers (dioecious). Its blue-green leaves are semi-evergreen. Its tiny compact branches spread, and often droop, staying close to the ground. It also develops a thick caudex or root-stock, which has led to it being a popular bonsai
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