Creeping snowberry
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Creeping snowberry ( Symphoricarpos mollis ) |
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The creeping snowberry ( Symphoricarpos mollis ), with the common English names Creeping Snowberry , Southern California Snowberry or Trip Vine , is a species of the honeysuckle family .
distribution and habitat
The creeping snowberry is native to western North America and grows on the coasts from British Columbia to California , inland to Idaho and Nevada .
The shrub thrives in warm climates and can tolerate both intense sunlight and permanent shade. It is a plant of the chaparral , mainly along the coast.
features
It is a creeping shrub whose shoots, several meters long but only half a meter (1.5 ft) high, spread out. The rungs are flexible. The snowberry reproduces both by rhizomes and by seeds. The leaves are opposite.
The inflorescence forms a cluster of red or pink, rounded bell-shaped flowers, which produce spherical or onion-shaped white or pink-shaded fruits. The fruits are generally not poisonous but have a disgusting taste; they have a soapy texture because it contains saponins .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plants Profile for Polystichum munitum (western swordfern) . In: PLANTS database . United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
- ^ A b Flowering Plans of the Santa Monica Mountains, Nancy Dale, 2nd. Ed, 2000, p. 91
- ↑ Calflora taxon report, University of California, Symphoricarpos mollis Nutt. Trailing Snowberry, creeping snowberry, snowberry
- ↑ George Neville Jones: A monograph of the genus Symphoricarpos . In: Journal of the Arnold Arboretum . 21, No. 2, 1940, pp. 201-252.
