Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual 'normals' at an 800 meter spatial resolution. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from 'Seed Propagation of Native California Plants' by Dara E. It features many upright stems which are arranged in a rather loose fashion. Birds are attracted to wax myrtles, which they use for food and shelter. The foliage and berries are pleasantly aromatic. Broadleaf evergreen shrub that can ultimately grow to 30’ tall and 20’ wide if it is not pruned. Wax myrtles are used as screen plants, informal hedges, or roadside plantings. Waxmyrtle is an extremely versatile evergreen that can harbor many different looks for different spaces. It is being used a great deal for hedges, but frequently being planted much too closely, sometimes as close as 4 apart. Myrica cerifera (Waxmyrtle) 8-20ft evergreen often used as a hedge great for the border preferred food source and cover for birds. Its small, dry, black berries are a draw for cedar waxwings and sparrows, among others. It can also be pruned into an attractive small tree. Pacific wax myrtle is adaptable to many soils and can handle summer drought or areas with consistently moist soil. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. Plant Habit or Use: small shrub to medium shrub. The Pacific Wax Myrtles dense bushy form, rapid growth and glossy green leaves make it a popular shrub for screening. Southern Wax Myrtle will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. Please call us or visit our farm if youd like to purchase Click here to find us on Google Maps. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Size3 GallonVariant sold out or unavailable. It has fragrant foliage that is olive green in color. All text shown in the 'About' section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Very durable evergreen shrub or small tree that is widely adaptable to most any landscape situation.

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