Tutsan                hi-PER-i-kum an-dro- SE-mum or an-dros-IE-mum

• Deciduous shrub, to1 m tall, bushy, with erect branches.  Leaves simple, opposite, 4-15 cm long, oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, dark blue-green, lighter beneath and lacking dark glands.  Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm wide, star-shaped or cupped.  Friut fleshy, red-brown then usually ripening to black.
• Sun to part shade.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 6     Native to western Europe and northern Africa.
• Hypericum: Greek, hyper, above, and eikon, a picture, it was hung above pictures to ward off evil spirit;  androsaemus: Greek name for a plant with red sap, andros, man, and haima, blood.
• Corvallis: southeast corner of Cental Park (6th St. and Madison).