On 2/10/2014 12:45 PM, Guv Bob wrote:
"David E. Ross" wrote in message ...
On 2/3/2014 3:57 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 2/3/2014 10:13 AM, Guv Bob wrote:
Manzanita berries. Just now starting to drop off.
http://imageshack.com/a/img855/4288/51tp.jpg



From the few visible leaves and the appearance of the berries, this
might also be cotoneaster.


Today, I saw a toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) that looked very much
like your photo. It had the same mass of berries, and the leaves were
slightly toothed. Toyon and cotoneaster are both in the rose family as
is pyracantha, another shrub with masses of red berries.

I think manzanita is in the heather family. One way to distinguish it
is that it has small urn-shaped, white or pink flowers. Toyon,
cotoneaster, and pyracantha have tiny flowers that resemble single roses
(if you get close enough to see them); the only flowers that I have seen
were white but so small that they were almost unnoticed.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

This one has white urn-shaped flowers.


Then mazanita it is.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary