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Blooms: April - May
Habit: tree
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
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Distribution: West of the Cascades, British Columbia to California
Habitat: Chiefly in drier, often rocky, areas at low elevations
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Species Description:
General: Trees to 30 m. tall, the bark smooth and chartreuse when young, aging to dark brownish-red.
Leaves: Leaves alternate, evergreen, smooth, shiny, ovate-oblong to elliptic, glabrous, serrate to entire, 7-15 cm. long.
Flowers: Flowers in large, terminal, compound racemes; flowers white, 6-7 mm. long, the corolla 5-lobed, urn-shaped; stamens 10, included in and borne on the corolla; anthers with two short, reflexed awns, opening by 2 slit-like pores; ovary superior,
Fruit: Fruit an orange to red berry, globose, 1 cm. in diameter, covered with small projections.
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Full Name with Authors:
Arbutus menziesii Pursh
Synonyms:
(none)
Treated in Flora of the PNW as:
Arbutus menziesii |
Additional Resources:
WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Arbutus menziesii specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.
Washington Flora Checklist: Arbutus menziesii treatment.
Oregon Flora Project Atlas: Arbutus menziesii atlas page.
E-Flora BC: Arbutus menziesii atlas page.
CalPhotos: Arbutus menziesii images.
USDA Plants Database: Arbutus menziesii. |
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