''Styrax redivivus'', with

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s that include snowdrop bush, California styrax, bitternut, drug snowbell, and chaparral snowbell, is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is a rare plant, native to

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,''Styrax rediviva''
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which can grow to in height.

Description

''Styrax redivivus'' is a deciduous shrub, usually 1–3 m tall, with alternate roundish softly hairy leaves that are 2–7 cm long and nearly as wide. The numerous white flowers are borne in small showy clusters at the tips of the twigs. They are 12–18 mm long with the petals joined only near the base, commonly 6 in number but ranging from 4 to 8. The fruit is globose, not very fleshy, 12–14 mm long. Styrax redivivus seeds, by Omar Hoftun

Distribution

This tall attractive shrub flowers in spring and grows on dry bushy slopes at scattered localities from

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. It is apparently absent from

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and all but the easternmost portion of the

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. In the

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it is a shrub of lower elevations below 3000 feet on the western slopes from

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north. It occurs in

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, foothills, woodland and

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forest, usually in open rocky areas.Consortium of California Herbaria
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References

External links

* http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80616 * http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Styrax+redivivus

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