On Nov 4, 6:56 pm, "'Mike'" wrote:

An irrelevant assemblage of ill-understood information, which proves
Sacha's point. Any fool can trawl info about one species of a genus
and attach it to another. It happens all too often and results in a
slurry of disinformation.

a. Skimmia anquetilia. Western Himalaya to Afghanistan. Shrub to 2 m.

Not recorded at that size outside native haunts and only rarely seen
that large in the Western Himalayas. In Afghanistan it remains very
dwarf due to the extreme climate. Rarely grown.

b.. Skimmia arborescens. Eastern Himalaya to southeast Asia. Shrub or
small tree to 15 m

Never been cultivated above 4m. Rarely grown.

e. Skimmia japonica. Japan, Korea, China. Shrub to 7 m.

Not seen anywhere near that size outside its native haunts. Such
plants are well in excess of 100 years old.

a. Skimmia japonica subsp. reevesiana (syn. S. reevesiana)

Very compact and rarely seen above 1m.

h. Skimmia laureola. Nepal to Vietnam and China. Shrub or small tree to
13 m.

Maximum 3m. in cultivation. Rarely grown.

Wikipedia is only as good as the information posted to it. In this
case it is less than useless.