Are both Nerium or Thuja could be a shrub?
Thuja Thuja ( ) is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are five species in the genus, two native to North America and three native to eastern Asia. The genus is monophyletic and sister to "Thujopsis". Members are commonly known as arborvitaes, (from Latin for "tree of life") thujas or cedars.
Maytenus nemorosa Maytenus nemorosa (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Marais, is a spiny, somewhat sprawling evergreen shrub or small tree with drooping branches growing to some 5 m tall and found along forest edges in Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal south to the Garden Route in the Southern Cape. In Maputaland the species adopts the form of a geoxylic suffrutex or ‘underground’ tree, with shoots sprouting from its woody, underground axis.