Gold-dust Plant (Aucuba japonica 'Vaiegata')
(Aucuba japonica 'Vaiegata') At the holiday season, many people are looking for ways to add color to the dinner table or hearth by using outdoor plant material. The most common candidates for decorating include many of the hollies ( Ilex) with their brilliant red fruits or needle evergreens for boughs.
Gold-dust Plant (Aucuba japonica 'Vaiegata')
Cultivar names such as 'Gold Dust,' 'Gold Splash,' 'Gold Spot,' and 'Golden Heart' might give you some kind of mental picture. You will be hard pressed to notice the flowers on aucuba. Like hollies and the ginkgo tree, this plant is dioecious (i.e. a plant is either male or ).