Vauquelinia californica
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Vauquelinia californica is a species of the genus Vauquelinia within the rose family (Rosaceae). It occurs only in small isolated areas in the southwestern USA and in Baja California ,Mexico. An English-language common name is Arizona rosewood.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Vauquelinia californica is an evergreen shrub or tree .
Generative characteristics
In early spring the white flowers open in dense inflorescences .
distribution
Vauquelinia californica only grows naturally in the southwestern US state of Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in the Madrean Sky Islands and in northwestern Mexico in the Peninsular Ranges in Baja California and in northern Baja California Sur and Sonora .
Part of the prehistoric distribution of Vauquelinia californica was reconstructed from pollen analyzes . During the Wisconsin glaciation , for example , Vauquelinia californica occurred in the lower elevations of the Waterman Mountains in southern Arizona, where it no longer exists today.
use
Vauquelinia californica is used as an ornamental plant. It is planted as a drought-tolerant shrub, hedge or small tree. When grown as a tree, it can grow to heights of 15 ft (5 m).
The dark brown wood with its red stripes is hard and very heavy, an attractive "rosewood" ( English rosewood ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Vauquelinia californica (Arizona rosewood) in: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas in Austin . Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Vauquelinia . In: BONAP's North American Plant Atlas . The Biota of North America Program. January 28, 2011. Archived from the original on June 28, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^ Richard Stephen Felger, Matthew Brian Johnson, Michael Francis Wilson: The trees of Sonora, Mexico . Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0195128915 , p. 391.
- ^ Elbert L. Little: Map 197, Vauquelinia californica . In: Minor Western Hardwoods (= Atlas of United States Trees), Volume 3. US Government Printing Office, 1976.
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan: Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla . GlobalTwitcher. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ^ Vauquelinia californica . Xeriscape-today.com. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Arid Zone Trees: Vauquelinia californica . Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
Web links
- Lady Bird Johnson Database . (English)
- University of Arizona: Vauquelinia californica (English)