Cercocarpus douglasii
| Klamath mountain mahogany | |
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| Species: | C. douglasii
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| Cercocarpus douglasii Rydb. 1913
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Cercocarpus douglasii, common name Klamath mountain mahogany, is a plant species native to northern California and southwestern Oregon.[1]
Cercocarpus douglasii is a tree up to 5 meters (17 feet) tall with rough, gray bark. Leaves are oblong to oblanceolate, up to 5 cm (2 inches) long, with rounded tips, green and hairless on the upper side but whitish with woolly hairs underneath. Flowers are borne in groups of 2 or 3 in the axils of the leaves.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b Rydberg, Per Axel, in Britton, Nathaniel Lord. 1913. North American Flora 22(5): 421.
- ^ Baldwin et al. 2012. Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, ed 2. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0520253124