| A conspicuous example of a dioecious plant is the common aucuba, of which for years only the female plant was known in Britain. |
| A large shade garden is filled with azaleas, hostas, camellias, aucuba, and dozens of varieties of hydrangeas. |
| Prune established shrubs such as aucuba, laurel, and witch hazel. |
| Good candidates are aucuba, barberry, forsythia, holly, honey-suckle, hydrangea, spirraea, weigela and even roses. |
| Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica. |
| The familiar Japanese laurel of gardens and shrubberies is aucuba japonica. |
