Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley is a plant in the Ericaceae family, order Ericales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley

Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley

Arctostaphylos pechoensis is a large manzanita shrub with dense foliage, cone-shaped flowers, and red, nearly hairless drupes.

Family
Genus
Arctostaphylos
Order
Ericales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley

Arctostaphylos pechoensis (Abrams) Dudley is a large shrub that generally grows at least 2 meters tall, and is known to reach over 5 meters in height. Its smaller branches are woolly and covered in long white bristles. It has dense overlapping foliage made up of oval-shaped leaves that can have smooth, toothed, or jagged edges. The inflorescence is a cluster of the cone-shaped flowers characteristic of manzanitas, with each individual flower measuring around 7 millimeters long. The fruit is a red drupe about 1 centimeter wide that is hairless or nearly hairless.

Photo: (c) Bruce Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Bruce Bailey · cc-by

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Ericaceae Arctostaphylos

More from Ericaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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