Pacific Southwest

Title: Rooting cuttings of shrub species for plantings in California wildlands

Author: Nord, Eamor C.; Goodin, J. R.

Date: 1970

Source: Res. Note PSW-RN-213. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p

Station ID: RN-PSW-213

Description: Selected shrub species are being studied in southern California for their possible fuel volume or slow burning characteristics. In propagation tests, five species-fourwing, Gardner's, Nuttall's, and allscale saltbushes; and creeping sage - rooted successfully from green tip and ripewood stem cuttings taken in spring and fall and placed under intermittent mist. Practically no rooting resulted from cuttings of two other species studied: hairy yerbasanta and woolly nama. Green tip cuttings treated with hormone rooted faster and more often than similar cuttings without hormone, or ripewood cuttings with or without treatment.

Keywords: Atriplex spp., Salvh sonomensis, propagation tests, stem cuttings, rooting ability, fire hazard reduction, fuel modification

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Nord, Eamor C.; Goodin, J. R.   1970.  Rooting cuttings of shrub species for plantings in California wildlands.   Res. Note PSW-RN-213. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p.