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May 14, 2008 : Fremontodendron californicum

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Plant Family / Families: Malvaceae
Scientific Name and Author: Fremontodendron californicum (Torr.) Coville
Name Location: near Carmel, California, USA

Fremontodendron californicum
Fremontodendron californicum

Many thanks to mskaer from the San Francisco Bay area of California for sharing today's photographs with us. These were posted via the Botany Photo of the Day Submissions Forum in this thread.

California flannelbush was previously featured on BPotD (see: Fremontodendron californicum), but today's photographs add a couple different perspectives on the species.

Malvaceae.info provides an excellent summary of the tribe Fremontodendreae (a subgroup of the family consisting of two genera, Fremontodendron and Chiranthodendron), including details about species and cultivars.

Posted by Daniel Mosquin at May 14, 2008 2:49 PM

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lovely pathway
the first picture is so close to being a fine

painting and could not be a better one- turner
comes to mind and the foggy foggy dew
slippery elm is the name i know best and
freemont i do admire the early men who left
us with so much to read and drawings to enjoy

now this generation carries on the quest
thank you

Posted by: elizabeth a airhart at May 14, 2008 7:31 PM

Oh, my, what a wonderful picture -- Fremontodendron in the mist. Yet it seems to thrive here in the hot hot dry dry Central Valley where it's planted along the freeways here and there. (Drops dead instantly for me, a few miles from the heres and theres -- maybe there's something I need to know about transplanting it.)

m

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