Wax Myrtle Don's Dwarf (Morella cerifera “don's dwarf") pot They are most commonly found

They are most commonly found in swamps and moist pinelands

the shrub can be trained into a small tree by removing some of the lower limbs

They are called bird peppers because birds love to eat the fruit

5–2 feet tall and wide

Soil type: sand

Wax Myrtle Don's Dwarf (Morella cerifera “don's dwarf") pot They are most commonly foundWax Myrtle (Morella cerifera) is an erect, multi trunked evergreen understory shrub. Found along the Coastal Plain from southern New Jersey to Florida and west along the Gulf Coastal Plain to eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma, Wax Myrtle is an early successional species that is highly adaptable to a range of conditions: it can be found growing in fresh to slightly brackish banks and shores; pine flatwoods; marshes; wet prairies; hammocks; swamps;