Paxistima canbyi
Common name:
Mountain Lover
Cliff Green
Ratstripper
Canby Paxistima
Pronunciation:
paks-ISS-ti-ma KAN-be-i
Family:
Celastraceae
Genus:
Synonyms:
Pachystima canbyi
Pachistima canbyi
Type:
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
No
- Evergreen shrub, to about 15 inches (40 cm) high, prostrate, spreading. Leaves opposite, simple, linear-oblong to narrow-oblong, 0.5-2.5 cm long, finely serrate to entire, revolute, glossy green. Flowers small, greenish or reddish, not showy. Fruit white, 4 mm thick, splitting at maturity.
- Sun (more compact) to part shade, well-drained, light, slightly acid soil. Easy to keep low by pruning.
- Hardy to USDA Zone (3)4 Native to the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia
- canbyi: after William Marriot Canby (1831-1904), who discovered the species.
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