Quercus tomentella

[Peter]

I've become enamoured with this California native, now only existing naturally on several offshore islands.  Here is a local tree growing at Pierce College.   Deep green with large leaves give a lush appearance.  Last photo shows another Catalina Island native, Lyonothamnus, or Catalina Ironwood

[georgeinbandonoregon]

two very handsome and distinctive evergreen trees with lush looking evergreen foliage which both "play nice" with palms and other "subtropicals" and do very nice as specimen trees in their own right.  the two challenges to growing them are finding them in nurseries and that their climate adaptability is limited to mild we winter /summer dry climates on the west coast.  summer wet climates on the east coast will likely (and sadly) be lethal to both of them.  both grow nicely here in Bandon, Oregon.  

[epiphyte]

the catalina cherry kinda looks like an oak.  ever try it?

[georgeinbandonoregon]

  On 12/23/2022 at 2:10 AM, epiphyte said:

the catalina cherry kinda looks like an oak.  ever try it?

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FWIW, think the foliage of both prunus ilicifolia lyonii ("Catalina Cherry") and p. ilicifolia ilicifolia rather look like evergreen oaks----both do ok up here in Bandon, Oregon the deer seem to like to nibble on them so in rural areas they may do best with the protection of fencing or a cage to keep them from being browsed to death.  

[epiphyte]

think it's possible to cross Prunus ilicifolia and salicifolia?  

[amh]

  On 12/23/2022 at 5:49 PM, epiphyte said:

think it's possible to cross Prunus ilicifolia and salicifolia?  

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Try to make the cross if you have the plants. There isn't much genetic info available to the public on the non or less domesticated prunus species.

[georgeinbandonoregon]

FWIW, some pictures that show  both quercus tomentella and lyonothamnus floribundas from the Channel Islands of Southern California (and Northern Mexico) grow well way up north in the PNW (in this case, Bandon, Oregon)