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Ayenia compacta
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Photographer: Aaron Schusteff
ID: 0000 0000 0420 1500 (2020-04-18)Copyright © 2020 Aaron Schusteff
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date of photo Feb 28, 2020
location
Glorietta Canyon, Anza Borrego (San Diego County, California, US)family
Malvaceae
notes This shrub was about 3 feet tall. Its twigs were rather densely-matted and tightly-hugging the shaded north-facing side of a crevice between granite boulders above the edge of a wash. The densely matted twigs and the somewhat thicker & waxier leaves of this plant seemed remarkably different from the more open & sprawling habitus and thinner leaves of the smaller plants of this species that I'd seen years ago in the Borrego Palm Canyon area. Perhaps this is a much older plant than those others? Or perhaps it's just 'variation' (accentuated by localized environmental factors?). At first, gazing at it from afar or up close, all I could see were leaves & twigs. But gently lifting and separating some outer layers to peer underneath, I noticed there were actually many fruits and flowers hidden under its dense outer canopy of leaves...some are shown in the accompanying images of this series. photo category: Plant - shrub
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