Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Ehretia anacua
Ehretia anacua (Terán & Berl.) I.M. Johnst.
Anacua, Sugarberry Anacua, Anaqua, Anacahuita, Knockaway, Knackaway, Sandpaper Tree, Manzanita, Manzanillo, Tlalahuacate
Boraginaceae (Borage Family)
USDA Symbol: EHANUSDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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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