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Vauquelinia californica, commonly known as Arizona rosewood, is an evergreen species of shrub or tree, in the rose family, Rosaceae. [1] The dark brown wood streaked with red, and is hard and very heavy, a beautiful 'rosewood.' It has dense white blossoms in early Spring.
Vauquelinia, commonly known as the rosewoods, is a genus of the rose family, Rosaceae. It consists of two species of shrubs found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico . The genus was named for French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829).
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V. californica may refer to: Vauquelinia californica , the Arizona rosewood, a plant species found in the southwestern portion of the US, in Baja California and Baja California Sur Verbena californica , the California vervain or Red Hills vervain, a plant species endemic to California
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The plant is a flowering evergreen hardwood shrub or small multi-trunked tree, growing from 2.4–5.5 metres (8–18 ft) in height and 1.8–3.0 m (6–10 ft) in width. The 1–5 cm (3 ⁄ 8 –2 in) leaves are olive to gray−green, fuzzy and flannel-like, palmately to pinnately lobed. The hairs covering the leaves are easily brushed off in ...
The leaves are up to 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long and 4 mm (0.16 in) wide, with a long, narrow linear shape, and the edges of the leaves (margins) are rolled under. [4] The inflorescence is up to 20 cm (7.9 in) tall by 15 cm (5.9 in) wide, with 3 to 8 involucres that are up to 4 mm (0.16 in) tall and 3 mm (0.12 in) wide. The flowers appear in dense ...
Trunks may reach 1.5–1.8 m (5–6 ft) in diameter near the base of the tree. [5] The leaf is approximately 0.3 m (1 ft) long, with 13–21 leaflets per leaf, each 5–12.5 centimetres (2–5 in) long, with dentate margins. [4] The vein axils bear tufts of hair underneath, [4] differentiating the species from the Southern California walnut.