Forestiera neo-mexicana A. Gray

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

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'Forestiera neo-mexicana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/forestiera/forestiera-neo-mexicana/). Accessed 2024-09-08.

Genus

Forestiera

Synonyms

Adelia neo-mexicana (A. Gray) O. Kuntze

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

apex: (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
bloom: Bluish or greyish waxy substance on leaves or fruits.
entire: With an unbroken margin.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
oblanceolate: Inversely lanceolate; broadest towards apex.
unisexual: Having only male or female organs in a flower.

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

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'Forestiera neo-mexicana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/forestiera/forestiera-neo-mexicana/). Accessed 2024-09-08.

A deciduous shrub 6 to 9 ft high, of spreading habit; young shoots glabrous. Leaves opposite, obovate, oval, or oblanceolate, faintly toothed or entire, mostly rounded or bluntish at the apex, tapered at the base; 1⁄2 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1 in. wide, quite glabrous; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in long. Flowers unisexual, clustered at the joints, small and inconspicuous. Fruits black, covered with blue bloom, egg-shaped, scarcely 1⁄4 in. long, each on a slender stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in long.

Native of the S.W. United States; introduced to Kew in 1925, but known to American botanists long before. F. acuminata is easily distinguished from F. neo-mexicana by its slenderly pointed, longer leaves and larger cylindrical fruits. The latter species is quite hardy and grows well in this country, but its chief attraction is in the fruits, for whose copious development our climate probably is not sunny enough.