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Colubrina texensis
Also called Texas Hog Plum, Texas Colubrina, Texas Snakewood
Texan hogplum is a deciduous desert shrub, 3 to 6 feet tall, native to Texas and northeastern Mexico. It grows best in full sun with excellent drainage and little water.
Colubrina texensis, the Texas snakewood or Texas hog plum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae, native to Texas and northeastern Mexico. A 3 to 6 ft (0.9 to 1.8 m) deciduous shrub with zig-zagging branches and patterned bark, it is typically found growing in dry, poor soils.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
