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Come spring, red bay puts out small, inconspicuous white-green flowers that produce a fruit, technically called a drupe, that goes from green to blue to nearly black when ripe. They're food for wild turkeys and songbirds, black bears and white-tailed deer, who also munch on the foliage.
Red Bay. Leaves: Alternate, simple, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, the leaves are aromatic when crushed, to 15 cm, green above, grayish white below. Bark: Gray-brown, becoming darker and furrowed with age. Flowers: Small, light greenish yellow, in clusters in the leaf axils; appearing from spring into summer.
Redbay is a tree of the Coastal plain growing roughly from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay area south to the Florida Keys and west to the eastern Gulf area of Texas with a gap within its range in Louisiana across the Mississippi River valley.
Tamala borbonia (L.) Raf. Persea borbonia or redbay[3] is a small, evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae), native to the southeastern United States. It belongs to the genus Persea, a group of evergreen trees including bays and the avocado.
21 Σεπ 2016 · Persea borbonia is a large rounded, evergreen shrub or tree. Height is 20 to 40 feet, spread is usually 2/3 that. The foliage is a glossy, medium green, yellowish green in the winter. The creamy white flowers are borne on cymes in early summer. Fall fruit is a dark blue drupe, reasonably attractive.
Red Bay. Persea borbonia. There are three kinds of Red Bay in Florida. The first is Scrub Red Bay or Silk Bay, Persea borbonia var. humilis. It is shown on the left and right of this picture and is found in the lower areas of scrub habitat. This is a dense tree up to 30 feet.
