Forestiera pubescens

Family: Oleaceae
Common Name: stretchberry
Symbol: FOPU2
Description: Common Name: stretchberry Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Shrub Wetland Status: FACU General: Shrub to small tree 2-5 m tall, the younger twigs pubescent. Leaves: Opposite, some leaves are fascicled, oblanceolate to elliptic, entire to serrulate, 1.5-5.5 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, rounded to obtuse at base and apex, glabrous to sparsely pubescent on upper surface, densely pubescent below when young, generally the leaves are glabrous with age. Flowers: Inconspicuous, with staminate flowers sessile, pistillate flowers pedicellate, the calyx minute, unequally 5-6 cleft to lacking, corolla lacking. Fruits: Drupe, 5-7 mm long, ellipsoid and blue black. Ecology: Found in moist soils of canyon bottoms from 4,500-6,500 ft (1372-1981 m), flowers May-June. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.