Buix commune (Jura canton, Switzerland)

Last modified: 2001-12-13 by pascal gross
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Buix

Or, a Shrub Vert issuant from a three peaked steep mountain Gules.

Zeljko Heimer, 17 September 2000

This may be a canting banner of arms, Buix coming from buisson, a shrub.

Pascal Gross, 16 September 2000

I would rather say that the tree is a box-tree (French, buis ; Latin Buxus sempervirens). The opposed oval leaves are rather characteristic. We are more familiar to the very small, shrubby box-trees used to delimit the gardens 'a la française', but box-tree in the wild are able to reach 5-8 meters in high.

Ivan Sache, 17 September 2000