1/31/10 Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta SW Riverside County, CA
1/31/10 Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta SW Riverside County, CA
1/31/10 Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta SW Riverside County, CA
LIFE LIST NOTES:
COMMON NAME: Mission Manzanita
SPECIES: Xylococcus bicolor
FAMILY: Ericaceae (Heath Family)
LIFE LIST DATE: 1/31/2010
LOCATION: Kyle Court, La Cresta, Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA
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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:
NATIVE
Habit: Shrub, burled.
Stem: erect, < 2.5 m; bark shredding; twigs canescent.
Leaf: generally alternate, evergreen, 2.5--4.5 cm, elliptic to oblong, leathery; margin entire, rolled under, abaxially densely white- to gray-hairy, adaxially glabrous, dark green.
Inflorescence: panicle, +- reflexed, dense, bracted; pedicel not jointed to flower, bractlets 2.
Flower: sepals generally 5; corolla urn-shaped, hairy, petals 5, fused, < 9 mm, white or +- pink; stamens generally 10, filaments woolly in lower 1/2, not swollen at base, anthers dehiscing by separate slits, awned; ovary superior, hairy, chambers generally 5, placentas axile.
Fruit: drupe, < 9 mm wide, smooth, flesh dry; stones (3)5, fused into a smooth unit.
Ecology: Chaparral;
Elevation: < 650 m.
Bioregional Distribution: SCo, s ChI (Santa Catalina Island), PR (exc SnJt);
Distribution Outside California: northern Baja California.
Flowering Time: Dec--Feb
eFlora Treatment Author: Gary D. Wallace
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