Arctostaphylos glauca - Flickr - brewbooks

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Description: Arctostaphylos glauca bigberry manzanita A much larger Arctostaphylos than what I'm used to in the Pacific Northwest. Note that there is nothing growing underneath this shrub - it is allelopathic, inhibiting the growth of other plants in its understory when rain leaches toxic arbutin and phenolic acids from its foliage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctostaphylos_glauca Allelopathy is a biological phenomenon by which an organism produces one or more biochemicals that influence the growth, survival, and reproduction of other organisms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allelopathy Seen at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. sb0811 080. Date: 8 August 2011, 09:36. Source: Arctostaphylos glauca. Author: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA. Camera location 34° 27′ 26.42″ N, 119° 42′ 34.5″ W : View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: 34.457340; -119.709584.