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Forestiera pubescens (desert olive; downy forestiera; elbowbush; stretchberry)

Synonyms: Adelia pubescens (homotypic); Forestiera ligustrina var. pubescens (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Forestiera pubescens, commonly known as stretchberry, desert olive, tanglewood, devil's elbow, spring goldenglow, spring herald, or texas forsythia is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States (Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California) and northern Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Forestiera pubescens var. parvifolia
Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens (New Mexico forestiera)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Predators

Niveaspis ilicis[4]
Sphinx libocedrus (Incense Cedar Sphinx)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0