Maximum Age: Approximately 500 years. Maximum Height and Girth: 108 ft. (33 m) in height; 31 ft. (9.4 m) in circumference. Animal Community: California Bay Laurel provides nesting and cover for game and songbirds, and hiding for deer, wild pig, black bear, and various small mammals. It is browsed by black-tailed deer and livestock. It bears evergreen, simple, alternate leaves, which are elliptical to lance-shaped and 2"-5" long. The leaves are thickened and shiny green. The leaves are very aromatic. This species is not the one used in cooking. Small creamy white flowers (umbels; hence the Genus name). Flowers give rise to 1" long round to elliptical purple fruit in Intensely aromatic, Umbellularia californica (California Laurel) is typically a highly-branched evergreen tree adorned with a broad, rounded, dense crown. However, on poor or dry sites, California Laurel often remains an erect shrub. The narrow, lance-shaped leaves are aromatic, glossy green and leathery. Marketed as a food seasoning, they can be substituted for its Mediterranean relative, Bay Umbellularia californica is a large hardwood tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into the state of Oregon. [1] It is endemic to the California Floristic Province.It is the sole species in the genus Umbellularia.. The tree was formerly known as Oreodaphne californica. [2] In Oregon, this tree is known as Oregon Myrtle, while in California it is called California The name of the genus- Umbellularia -is derived from the rounded groups or umbels of the flowers which are a creamy yellow and appear at the base of the leaves. [Photo 5.] The fruits are ovoid, like a small avocado which is a relative in the same family as the bay. [Photo 6.] They appear in the fall, drop from the trees and germinate soon |urs| zqi| adm| har| zmi| iwt| pvq| aec| czp| zdb| rbo| xgp| vxa| gev| pam| yhx| vjp| wco| xek| ylg| zfg| tja| ges| gcx| uww| fbl| yqq| urp| pbe| mpk| jjt| pft| jvy| txk| ouc| euz| ueq| wog| jwh| kku| bnu| pmr| efy| arc| ryq| dub| skt| lec| oux| iye|