Garrya veatchii - Silk tassel bush

Silk tassel bush (Garrya veatchii) is a six-foot evergreen shrub of chaparral and oak woodland from Baja California to San Luis Obispo County, with gray foliage and white catkin-like male flowers.¹ It grows 1-2 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²
• Drought-tolerance¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-2
Diameter (m)	1-2

Footnotes

1. Garrya veatchii, Silk Tassel Bush | 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 ↩