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Chinese box is a slow-growing, evergreen shrub or small tree with a fine-textured, compact crow. It grows from 1.8 - 12 metres tall with a clear bole that can be 2.5 metres long and 60cm in diameter. The tree has a wide range of uses. It is valued especially for its essential oil; for the yellow heartwood of larger specimens; and its range of medicinal uses. It is cultivated in India for medicinal use, is often grown as a hedge and is widely planted in the tropics and subtropics as an ornamental, where it is valued especially for the intense orange-blossom fragrance of its flowers and its small red fruits.