Comarostaphylis diversifolia - Summer holly

Summer holly (Comarostaphylis diversifolia) is a slow-growing evergreen shrub native to the chaparral of coastal San Diego County and Baja California, needing good drainage and little summer water once established.¹ It grows 1-6 m tall and 1-5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Well drained soil¹

Outputs

• Human food¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Wildlife habitat¹
• Flammable²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-6
Diameter (m)	1-5

Footnotes

1. Comarostaphylis diversifolia, Summer Holly | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩