A glorious mediterranean evergreen shrub eventually forming a small tree with dark green leathery leaves and clusters of small creamy45white flowers in autumn the waxy flowers are replaced with small lychee45like fruits which ripen and turn red the following autumn giving rise to the common name strawberry tree arbutus unedo also has attractive peeling cinnamon45coloured bark and is a spendid specimen in shrub borders small gardens and low45maintenance gardens excellent for