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Plant - cultivated Hwy 69
Ginny Shugars | Leaves Granite Mtn - Tr 40
Sue Smith | Flowers Hwy 69
Ginny Shugars | Immature fruit Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | Fruit Forest Trails
Doug McMillan | |
Origin: Native Similar Species: Garrya flavescens
General Description: Evergreen. An erect, compact or openly branched evergreen shrub; bark reddish-brown with age; branches are somewhat quadrangular (square) in cross section, leaves opposite.
Identification notes: Evergreen shrub with squarish branches, leaf blades thick on short stalks, opposite, sparsely hairy or smooth below. Male and female flowers in elongated clusters on different plants. Bracts subtending flowers are fused at the base. Fruit is a berry.
Height: Up to 10 feet Width: 6 feet
Habitat Description: Found in desert scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands and dry slopes in pine-oak forests.
Plant Communities: Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 3000 - 8000 feet
Color: Green Shape: Inconspicuous in elongated clusters
Tubular: N Flowering Period: Mar - Aug
Description: Male and female flowers small, lacking petals, arranged in elongated clusters (catkins), each flower subtended by a pair of bracts fused at the base.
Leaf Color: Light green, yellowish-green Type: Simple Shape: Round or oval Margin: Toothed Attachment: Opposite Hairs: Bottom of leaves
Description: Leaves opposite on short stalks, blades oval to round, often yellowish-green, thick and leathery. Upper leaf surface is smooth and lower surface may be smooth to sparsely covered with appressed hairs; margins have tiny irregular teeth.
Color: Dark bluish-purple Type: Berry-like Description: Berries are round and pea-sized, dark purple to black, smooth to sparsely hairy and contain 1 or 2 brown seeds.
Bark Color: Reddish-brown, greenish-gray Bark Texture (Mature): Rough Bark and Branch Description: Bark is reddish-brown with age, younger wood is greenish-gray. Heartwood is various shades of light and dark brown in an irregularly streaked pattern.
Spines, thorns or prickles: N |
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