Description
Myrica californica, the Pacific wax myrtle, is an easy to grow, medium sized, BC native, broadleaf evergreen shrub-tree that offers great versatility as a lush semi-tropical looking filler for the garden. It has inconspicuous catkins in spring giving way to clusters of dark wrinkled, purple fruits in late summer that persist well into midwinter providing food for birds. Its attractive, glossy green, narrow leaves are aromatic when crushed. Long-lived and moderately fast-growing with an attractive natural rounded form of 10-15 feet tall and wide. An ideal choice for formal, naturalistic or coastal gardens due to its tolerance to salt spray, as hedges or informal screens, and as an attractive specimen. Nitrogen fixer. The flowers attract butterflies, the fruit attracts birds, and plants are a larval host for various butterfly and moth species. Deer resistant.
