Arctostaphylos glauca Lindl.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Arctostaphylos glauca' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/arctostaphylos/arctostaphylos-glauca/). Accessed 2024-03-27.

Common Names

  • Bigberry Manzanita

Glossary

cordate
Heart-shaped (i.e. with two equal lobes at the base).
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
glaucous
Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
truncate
Appearing as if cut off.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Arctostaphylos glauca' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/arctostaphylos/arctostaphylos-glauca/). Accessed 2024-03-27.

An evergreen shrub 6 to 14 ft high, sometimes a small tree to 25 ft; bark smooth, reddish brown; branchlets pale green, glabrous and glaucous (but downy and sometimes glandular in var. puberula J. T. Howell). Leaves ovate to oblong-elliptic, to 134 in. long, truncate or slightly cordate at the base, on stalks to 13 in. long, greyish green and glabrous on both sides. Flowers urn-shaped, white or pinkish, borne in spring in broad, short, rather pendulous panicles. Fruit brownish, large for the genus (to 35 in. in diameter), with the nutlets united into a solid stone.

Native of S. California. A handsome species, but tender.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

A. pringlei Parry var. drupacea Parry A. drupacea (Parry) McBride – It should have been added that the species itself was described from Arizona and does not occur in California. The var. drupacea, said to differ mainly in its nutlets tending to cohere into a single stone, is a native of southern California and of the Mexican state of Baja California.

The distinguishing characters of A. glauca and its allies are that they are tall shrubs with leaves that are grey-green on both surfaces and have inflorescences in which the pedicels are longer than the bracts. Apart from A. pringlei, two other species in this group are in cultivation – A. mariposa Dudley and A. viscida Parry.


A pringlei var.

Synonyms
drupacea Parry

An erect, aromatic shrub to 14 ft high with densely hairy-glandular young branchlets. Leaves grey-green, to 1{1/2} in. long, oblong-ovate to elliptic, finely glandular-downy on both sides. Flowers rose-coloured, in sessile racemes or panicles, on pink stalks and subtended by bracts of the same colour. Probably not in cultivation and perhaps tender, but its flowers are said to be among the most beautiful of the genus.