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Myrica californica (California bayberry, California wax myrtle or Pacific wax myrtle is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Pacific coast of North America.
Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub, [3] reaching up to 14 metres (46 ft) tall. [4] It is adaptable to many habitats, growing naturally in wetlands, near rivers and streams, sand dunes, fields, hillsides, pine barrens, and in both coniferous and mixed-broadleaf forests.
Coast live oak, Pacific madrone, Pacific wax myrtle, big leaf maple, California bay laurel, and California black oak also occur in the Santa Cruz Mountains. There do exist several small and isolated stands of old-growth forest , most notably at Henry Cowell Redwoods and Portola Redwoods State Parks and one sizeable old-growth redwood forest at ...
Gale californica, a synonym for Myrica californica, the California bayberry, California wax myrtle or Pacific wax myrtle, an evergreen shrub or small tree species native to the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from Vancouver Island south to California
Approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) of footpaths begin at a small parking lot unsuitable for buses or trailers on the unpaved one-lane Kruse Ranch Road off California Route 1. These footpaths through quiet secondary forest cross fern-covered seasonal streams in Phillips Gulch and Chinese Gulch passing clusters of rhododendron, salal, California huckleberry, and Pacific wax myrtle.
The wax coating on the fruit of several species, known as bayberry wax, has been used traditionally to make candles. It was used for that purpose by the Robinson family in the novel The Swiss Family Robinson. [9] The foliage of Myrica gale is a traditional insect repellent, used by campers to keep biting insects out of tents.
Bayberry wax is an aromatic green vegetable wax. It is removed from the surface of the fruit of the bayberry (wax-myrtle) shrub (ex. Myrica cerifera) by boiling the fruits in water and skimming the wax from the surface of the water. [1] It is made up primarily of esters of lauric, myristic, and palmitic acid. [2]
Although redwoods dominate the landscape, many other plant species are common in Big Basin. One will certainly see coast Douglas-fir, tan oak, Pacific madrone, and Pacific wax myrtle trees in the park. Competing for sunshine are also many shrubs such as red huckleberries, western azalea, and many varieties of ferns.