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§1 Plant
Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.
vernacular redbay — species · Lauraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lauraceae Juss.
- Genus
- Persea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 194 counties across 8 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- High
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 7 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 200 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–80 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–6.7
- Root depth
- 24 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 70 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 50 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Dark Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Black
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 2,100
- Propagation
- seed, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 194 counties across 8 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Choctaw 01023
- Coffee 01031
- Conecuh 01035
- Covington 01039
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Geneva 01061
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Lee 01081
- Macon 01087
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Pike 01109
- Russell 01113
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Washington 01129
- Wilcox 01131
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 45 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Calhoun 12013
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gilchrist 12041
- Gulf 12045
- Hamilton 12047
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Indian River 12061
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Martin 12085
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- St. Johns 12109
- St. Lucie 12111
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 52 N ▾
- Appling 13001
- Bacon 13005
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Bibb 13021
- Brantley 13025
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clinch 13065
- Coffee 13069
- Columbia 13073
- Cook 13075
- Crisp 13081
- Decatur 13087
- Dodge 13091
- Dougherty 13095
- Early 13099
- Echols 13101
- Emanuel 13107
- Evans 13109
- Glynn 13127
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Johnson 13167
- Lanier 13173
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- McIntosh 13191
- Pierce 13229
- Richmond 13245
- Screven 13251
- Sumter 13261
- Talbot 13263
- Tattnall 13267
- Taylor 13269
- Tift 13277
- Toombs 13279
- Treutlen 13283
- Turner 13287
- Upson 13293
- Ware 13299
- Wayne 13305
- Wheeler 13309
- Worth 13321
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 5 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 36 N ▾
- Beaufort 37013
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Carteret 37031
- Chowan 37041
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Dare 37055
- Duplin 37061
- Gates 37073
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Jones 37103
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Moore 37125
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pamlico 37137
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Tyrrell 37177
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Chesterfield 45025
- Clarendon 45027
- Colleton 45029
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Dorchester 45035
- Florence 45041
- Georgetown 45043
- Hampton 45049
- Horry 45051
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marlboro 45069
- McCormick 45065
- Orangeburg 45075
- Richland 45079
- Sumter 45085
- Williamsburg 45089
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PEBO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3034048 ↗Record version
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