1. Common names include Bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale, and wax-myrtle

2. Dwarf wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub in the 2-to-4-foot range.

3. Myrica cerifera, commonly known as Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, Wild Cinnamon, Southern Bayberry, Wax Myrtle, Southern Wax Myrtle, Candle Berry, Arbre à suif, Myricae Cortex, Tallow Shrub, Wachsgagle, bay-rum tree, sweet gale, American Bayberry, Myrica, Vegetable Tallow, Vegetable Wax, Yang-mei, is a large, irregularly-shaped, dense-branching, nitrogen-fixing, suckering, fast-growing, evergreen

4. Bayberry, also known as wax myrtle, waxberry, or candelberry, is both a shrub and a tree

5. Bayberry or wax myrtle grows as a large evergreen shrub or small tree that is widely distributed throughout the southern and eastern US