Wax Myrtle
Prepared by Marjan Kluepfel, HGIC Information Specialist, and Bob Polomski, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Clemson University. (New 05/99. Images added 03/07.)
HGIC 1076 ...
Pacific Wax Myrtle, Pacific Bayberry
Grow these evergreen and deciduous shrubs and small trees for their aromatic foliage and grayish or purple fruits. They like temperate and warm climates. Some species have edible fruit.
Wax myrtle blooms in late winter or early spring.These are the males (pollen producer) the female blossoms are tiny nubs and are borne on separate plants. Downlad a large version (800x600) of this image.
Description ...
Wax Myrtle
mi-RI-ka
About 35 species of evergreen or deciduous shrubs or small trees, often aromatic. Leaves simple, alternate, short petioled, usually oblanceolate. Flowers unisexual, inconspicuous, without sepals or petals, in dense catkins.
Although wax myrtle can grow in tree form, those on campus are clearly intended to be managed as broad, dense shrubs. The lanceolate leaves are finely toothed, 2 inches or more in length, glossy green above and pale below.
Synonyms: wax myrtle, myrica, arbre a souf, myricae cortex, wachsgagle, candleberry, tallow shrub, vegetable tallow, waxberry, wax myrtle
Order: Myricaceae ...
Dwarf Wax Myrtle [English]: Morella cerifera
Dwarf Wax Myrtle [English]: Morella 'Suwannee Elf'
Dwarf Wax Palm [English]: Ceroxylon parvum
Dwarf Western Rosinweed [English]: Calycadenia villosa
Dwarf White Bauhinia [English]: Bauhinia acuminata ...
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.
Genus Myrica, with the native bayberries and Wax Myrtle
Taxonomic Serial Number: 19265
Also known as Gale palustris
Description: ...
The waxy gray “berries" of the North American wild or cultivated bayberry shrubs (chiefly Myrica cerifera) are used to make fragrant bayberry candles, scented soap, and sealing wax; bayberry is also called candleberry and wax myrtle.
Myrica cenifera. Wax myrtle. Native shrub.
Naked Tree. Erythrina fusca.
Myrica - Bayberries
Myrica californica - California Bayberry
Myrica cerifera - Wax Myrtle; Southern Bayberry
Myrica inodora - Odorless Bayberry ...
It is a vigorous plant, especially in light soils, and is hardy, but is little known outside botanical collections. The Wax Myrtle is met with in old gardens, where it was planted for its spicy foliage.
 See also: Myrtle, Green, Evergreen, May, Holly
  
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