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This is a hybrid manzanita involving the Vine Hill manzanita, Arctostaphylos densiflora. It was named by California Flora Nursery in Fulton after the landscape architect who selected it, Ron Lutsko. Although rarely grown, it has much to recommend it. The form is upright and round, with mahogany bark beneath dark…

This manzanita is one of the many contributions to the nursery trade by Bert Wilson of Las Pilitas Nursery in Santa Margarita. He and daughter Penny describe this selection as a hybrid involving Arctostaphylos bakeri ‘Louis Edmunds.’ Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Sentinel,’ and/or Arctostaphylos manzanita. ‘Mama Bear’ is most like Arctostaphylos manzanita…

The common manzanita grows as an open, upright shrub or tree with large oval leaves over burnt orange bark. It becomes the dominant large manzanita species in coastal mountains and western Sierra Nevada from about the latitude of Mt. Diablo up to the southern Cascades. The upright open form make…

The common manzanita is the prevalent large manzanita in the mountains of the northern half of the state. It also grows in a rather narrow band in the lower foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada. It naturally grows as a large shrub with burnt orange bark and olive green, oval…

The common manzanita grows throughout the inner coastal ranges north of the SF Bay, and in the lower foothills of the central Sierra Nevada, with a few scattered populations elsewhere (e.g. Santa Clara County). It is currently divided into six subspecies by taxonomists. The laevigatus subspecies is found in the…

The common manzanita is the prevalent tree-form manzanita species in the mountainous portions of counties north of Santa Clara County, especially along the coast. As one moves south of this imaginary line, the bigberry manzanita, Arctostaphylos glauca, takes over. This selection was taken from the slopes of Mount St. Helena…

The Presidio manzanita is a rare subspecies of the Mount Tamalpais manzanita of Marin County. The Presidio manzanita grows only in serpentine outcroppings in the Presidio of San Francisco. Only a single species is known to exist in the wild, its exact location a carefully kept secret. It must have…