Thursday, April 26, 2018

Mission Manzanita (Xylococcus bicolor)


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 CrestaMurrieta, 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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