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Forestiera angustifolia; Desert Olive, Panalero; (shown with Euphorbia antisyphilitica)   

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Forestiera angustifolia
Forestiera angustifolia
Desert Olive, Panalero
(shown with Euphorbia antisyphilitica)
Photographer: E. Wynn Anderson

ID: 0000 0000 0218 0458 (2018-02-08)

Copyright © 2018 Wynn Anderson

 
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  • date of photo  Mar 6, 2015
  • latitude 29.58990   longitude 102.99970     View on Google Maps.
  • location   State Highway TX 2627 to La Linda, MX, 6.9 miles southeast of Stillwell Store, 3.6 miles northeast of paved road north to Black Gap WMA HQ ranger station, (Brewster County, Texas, US)
  • family Oleaceae
  • plant community   Chihuahuan Desert scrub at 2654' (809m)
  • notes   new emerging foliage on shrub amid large stands of Euphorbia antisyphilitica on an out-wash plain of mixed alluvial gravels of pale limestone and reddish volcanic rhyolite. Such dominant stands of Candelilla is uncommon in the region as the plant was severely over harvested in the early 20th century for it's high quality wax
  • keywords: CDR, Chihuahuan Desert
  • contributor's ID #  CDR 1422
  • photo category: Plant - shrub

  • MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PLANT
  • common names   Desert Olive, Panalero (photographer)
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