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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.
24 Ιαν 2020 · Redbay. Thriving on little care in full sun or partial shade, Redbay can tolerate a wide range of soils, from hot and dry to wet and swampy. Redbay is a rugged and adaptable plant suitable to many landscape applications including coastal beach front property.
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 larval host plant for the Palamedes Swallowtail (Papilio palamedes) butterfly. A native plant of the US, occurring in AL, AR, FL, LA, GA, MS, NC, SC, and TX. The seeds are eaten and disseminated by songbirds, Bob Whites, deer, bears, and turkeys.
Red Bay. Persea borbonia. Family: Lauraceae. Native Range: Southeastern U.S. to South Florida. Description: Evergreen tree to 20 feet. Flowering season: Spring. Exposure: Full sun to light shade. Moisture: Moist to average. Moderate Salt Tolerance.
19 Αυγ 2021 · The densely-foliated, spreading branches create a lush, billowly, rounded canopy making Redbay a wonderful shade tree. It can make a nice street tree planted on 20 to 25-foot centers but be sure to prune it properly as mentioned above.
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.