This plant is suitable for use as large hedges, screens or as a specimen small tree. Drought stressed plants are sometimes attacked by greenhouse thrips in coastal plantings and mites in inland gardens but both can be mitigated by increased irrigation and/or the use of horticultural soaps or oils. Cold hardy, tolerating temperatures below 15° F. It is drought tolerant in coastal plantings but looks better when given occasional to regular irrigation.
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Performs best in full sun to partial shade with a quick-draining soil. The foliage or nectar of this plant also attracts several butterfly species.
The female flowers can be followed by brownish-purple berries that ripen in fall and are highly attractive to myrtle warblers and many other birds. Both male and female flowers are inconspicuous and in tiny reddish yellow catkins late spring and summer. Myrica species are either dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants or as in the case of the Pacific Wax Myrtle monoecious, with unisexual flowers on the same plant. It has smooth gray bark and upright stems that are densely clothed with lustrous 4-inch long, toothed-edge leaves which emerge a bright apple green is spring and darken as they mature.
Myrica californica (Pacific Wax Myrtle) - This California native is a vigorous multi-branched evergreen shrub reaching up to about 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide - easily kept smaller.
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