Re: Heteromeles arbutifolia 'Davis Gold'

Ernie:

In my search for this plant, I could find but two
sources:

Forestfarms, the retail mail-order company out of
Oregon and Mostly Natives Nursery, a wholesale grower
in Tomales, California.

Any others?

Joe Seals
Santa Maria, California,
where fall is in the air

--- Ernie Wasson <sluggo@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Dear Medit Plants,
> A yellow berried form of Toyon (Heteromeles
> arbutifolia) has been around
> for quite awhile but perhaps only recently has been
> grown by some of the
> larger wholesale nurseries. I first saw it at
> California Flora Nursery
> just north of Santa Rosa sometime in the mid 1990's.
> I recently emailed
> Sherrie Althouse, one of the owners of the nursery
> and she sent me the
> following information.
> 
> " We first got the plant in l992 from Parker
> Sanderson who was working
> at the Arboretum at the time. Warren Roberts says
> the plant was from a
> batch of seed collected on Santa Catalina Island in
> l962 by Doug
> Propft.  It was introduced into the trade by a grad
> student named
> Charles Filmer who went all over the state looking
> for yellow berried
> forms of toyon.  Turns out the one grown from  the
> island seed
> collection, which was planted near the
> administration building on the
> U.C.Davis campus, was easier than most to propagate
> vegetatively.  It
> was therefore introduced as 'Davis Gold'. "
> 
> Toyon is one of my favorite native shrubs. I only
> wish that fireblight
> and thrips would leave it alone.
> 
> Ernie Wasson
> Cabrillo College
> Monterey Bay Area, California
> 


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