Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Colubrina texensis
Colubrina texensis (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray
Texas Hog Plum, Texas Snakewood, Texas Colubrina, Hog Plum
Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn Family)
USDA Symbol: COTE6USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Colubrina texensis
Hog Plum
Rhamnaceae
Location: 30 m S of Wolfeton Way at SE corner of Carriage Square--Oakwell Farms, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Full sun; level, alkaline, allluvial soil. Small grove.
Description: Rounded shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves small, oblanceolate, 8 x 15 mm, opposite, w/only one prominent (mid)vein. Flowers single, or appearing glomerate at short twig-like spur shoots.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 30, 1994
Specimen number: 559
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0843
Accession Date: Jul 26, 1994
Accession Number: 63
Annotations: SCXXB (In flower)