Paxistima myrsinites

  • Family: Celastraceae
  • Common Name: Mountain Lover
  • Symbol: PAMY
  • Description: Densely branched, creeping undershrubs 20-100 cm, often found in duff of forest floor. Leaves smooth, dark green blades, glabrous, opposite, thick, ovate, with minutely serrate margins, usually 1-2 pairs per cm, 8-27 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, glossy green above and pale beneath. Tiny white flowers with four petals, axillary, solitary, or in small clusters of 1-3 flowers, the petals commonly maroon, occasionally green, ovate, 1.5-2 mm long.Found in mountain pine forests from 4,500-9,000 ft

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