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Ehretia anacua (Teran & Berl.) I.M. Johnston

Anacua, Sugarberry Anacua, Anaqua, Knockaway, Sandpaper tree
Boraginaceae (Borage Family)

USDA Symbol: EHAN
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Ehretia anacua

Sugarberry, Sandpaper Leaf, Knock-away

Boraginaceae

Location: In fencerow on S side of East-West Path, about 120 m W of Oakwell Farms Pky--Oakwell Farms.
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Dry, level, alkaline, alluvial soil. Currently shaded by Celtis & Ulmus tree species.

Description: Rounded crown tree to 13 m tall. Usually evergreen, tending to multiple trunks. Leaves broadly lanceolate, petiolate, 3-12 cm long, usually entire & revolute, dark green with many mineralized disks above at maturity; lighter below. Infloresence terminal cymes on young twigs. Corolla 5-lobed, white.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Harry Cliffe
 Collection Date: Mar 20, 1990
 Specimen number: 379

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0575
 Accession Date: Nov 17, 1993
 Accession Number: 43

Annotations: SCXXB

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