University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium: Vascular Plants (NCU:Vascular Plants)
NCU00309083
948a7d6c-09cd-45ac-8c85-5cc1696b8dd7
34082
Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneid.
Simmondsiaceae
Diamond, Pete (1996-02-22)
Diamond, Pete
78
1996-02-22
United States, North Carolina, Randolph, Located in planter 1C of Sonoran Desert exhibit. [North Carolina Zoological Park]
35.627052 -79.761022 +-1434m. WGS84
= North Carolina Zoo
Evergreen dioecious shrub to about 1.3 m. Pistillate flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous; apetalous; stigma 3-parted, to 1cm, cream-colored, yellowish with age. Leaves emerge light green, becoming bluish or grey-green with age and as adpressed hairs become more prominent. All plant parts tomentose, excpet woody stems.