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Leaves Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Flowers Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | Fruit Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
Origin: Native Similar Species: Garrya wrightii
General Description: Evergreen. Shrub or small tree. Separate male and female (dioecious) plants produce long hanging clusters of flowers. Female flowers give way to bunches or clusters of spherical berries covered in hairs.
Identification notes: Evergreen, many-branched shrub; leaves opposite, oval-shaped, densely hairy beneath, tip acute, margin is entire; clustered flowers, male and female flowers on separate plants, bracts united; fruit in long clusters, covered with silky hairs.
Height: 6 to 12 feet Width: 6 to 10 feet
Habitat Description: Found in areas of desert scrub, chaparral, and pine-oak forest.
Plant Communities: Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 2500 - 7000 feet
Color: White Shape: Bell-shaped in elongated clusters
Tubular: Y Flowering Period: Feb - Apr
Description: Small flowers are produced on silky drooping spikes 4 inches long, lacking petals, appearing late winter to early spring.
Leaf Color: Grayish-green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Smooth Attachment: Opposite Hairs: Top and bottom of leaves
Description: The leaves are oval-shaped, 3 to 4 inches long and about half as wide. The underside may be hairless to very hairy and pale dusty gray.
Color: Purplish Type: Berry-like Description: Fruit consists of round berries borne in pairs on 1 to 3 inch long tassels, individual berries to 1/2 inch in diameter, purplish and silky-haired.
Bark Color: Grayish-brown Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Young bark is grayish-white (ashy) with brown stripes and smooth, becoming grayish-brown and rough in older bark.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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