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Colubrina texensis (Torr. & Gray) Gray

Hog-plum, Texan hogplum, Texas colubrina, Texas snakewood
Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn Family)

USDA Symbol: COTE6
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Colubrina texensis

Hog Plum

Rhamnaceae

Location: 14511 Star Cross Trail, Helotes.
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Shrub, in shade of Juniperus ashei and Quercus virginiana. Soils from stoney and poor to rocky, but rich in leaf litter.

Description: Flower in a glomerate, green; pistils-5, opposite petals, disk fills the calyx; leaves 2 cm x 1 cm elliptic to oblanceolate in a fascicle w/numerous flowers of shoot; shrub to 1.5 m, fruit a caplule, dry (last years), 3 stoned.

County: Bexar
 Collector: Mike Fox
 Collection Date: Apr 2, 1994
 Specimen number: 76

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0740
 Accession Date: May 3, 1994
 Accession Number: 54

Annotations: (In flower & fruit) SCFXB

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