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new emerging foliage on shrub amid large stands of Euphorbia antisyphilitica on an out-wash plain of mixed alluvial gravels of pale limestone and reddish volcanic rhyolite. Such dominant stands of Candelilla is uncommon in the region as the plant was severely over harvested in the early 20th century for it's high quality wax
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large shrub in arroyo gravels and among boulders at base of exposed cliff faces in a 1/2 mile long, narrow, steep walled, dry, slot canyon cut in flat lying pale, blocky, limestone strata by a intermittent arroyo tributary of Fresnal Creek, and sheltering a rich diverse flora of the remote, poorly accessible region known as Hell's Half-acre.
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Large, xeric, woody shrub with narrow leaves bunched on short spurs on spreading central branches. Fruit, a purple to black drupe highly sought by birds. This is the more common strictly branched form as contrasted with the rather eye-catching but less common curved or 'weeping' form.
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Large, xeric, woody shrub with narrow leaves bunched on short spurs on spreading central branches. Fruit, a purple to black drupe highly sought by birds. This is the more common strictly branched form as contrasted with the rather eye-catching but less common curved or 'weeping' form.
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NOTE: weeping habit. Plant on silty clays of sheet wash drainage from shaley, gypseous Cretaceous limestone hills with Atriplex obovata, Mortonia scabrella, Vachellia schottii,Dalea formosa, Leucophylum minus, Larrea tridentata.
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NOTE: weeping habit. Plant on silty clays of sheet wash drainage from shaley, gypseous Cretaceous limestone hills with Atriplex obovata, Mortonia scabrella, Vachellia schottii,Dalea formosa, Leucophylum minus, Larrea tridentata.
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