The Pacific Madrone is considered to be a medium sized evergreen, though it has been recorded to grow as tall as 100 ft-which is quite large! It is the biggest of all the Madrones, and grows in an upright fashion with a rounded crown. The main trunk or shoot is stout in size and is a yellow-green during the first growing season then changing to a bright orange, as the bark thickens with age this color finally shifts to deep red.
The leaves are leathery, shiny, evergreen and are 2-6 inches long. The seedlings have very finely toothed leaves. Flowers grow on conical panicles that are about 8 inches long, they open in March in the California region but not until May in British Columbia. The fruit are green in color when young in early fall, and change to a orange or scarlet by October of each year.
This tree is native from the Southern half of Vancouver Island along the coast and hills down through southern California. It is very commonly found in the woods from Alberni to Victoria, BC, through Ashland, Oregon, Grants Pass, The Rougue River Valley and south through San Francisco, CA.
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Image Citations: Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
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