About Styrax redivivus (Torr.) L.C.Wheeler
Styrax redivivus is a deciduous shrub that typically reaches 1 to 3 meters in height. It bears alternate, roundish, softly hairy leaves that measure 2 to 7 cm long, and are almost as wide as they are long. The plant produces numerous white flowers that grow in small, showy clusters at the tips of twigs. Individual flowers are 12 to 18 mm long; their petals are joined only near the base. Most flowers have 6 petals, though the number can range from 4 to 8. Its fruit is globose, not very fleshy, and 12 to 14 mm long. This tall, attractive shrub blooms in spring. It grows on dry bushy slopes in scattered locations from San Luis Obispo County to San Diego County, California. It is apparently absent from the Santa Monica Mountains, and from all but the easternmost section of the San Gabriel Mountains. In the Sierra Nevada, it grows as a shrub at lower elevations below 3000 feet on western slopes, ranging north from Tulare County. It can be found in chaparral, foothills, woodland, and yellow pine forest, most often in open rocky areas.
