Garrya_veatchii

<i>Garrya veatchii</i>

Garrya veatchii

Species of plant

Garrya veatchii is a species of flowering shrub known by the common names canyon silktassel and Veatch silktassel.

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It is native to the chaparral hills of Southern California and Baja California.

Description

Garrya veatchii is a small treelike or bushy shrub reaching maximum heights near 2 metres (6.6 ft). It has oval-shaped leaves 3 to 9 centimeters long and about half as wide with margins flat, wavy, or slightly rolled, and undersides covered thinly to thickly in woolly hairs.

It produces long, hanging inflorescences of light-colored flowers, those on female plants giving way to hanging clusters of fruits.

The fruit is a spherical to egg-shaped berry covered in a soft coat of hairs.

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