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Condalia hookeri
Also called Bluewood, Lotebush
Condalia hookeri, called the Brazilian bluewood, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae, native to Texas and eastern Mexico. It is a thorny shrub or small tree reaching 6 m (20 ft) but usually much shorter. Typically it is found growing in marginal habitats such as limestone slopes, sandstone bluffs, lunettes, shell ridges, juniper-dominated woodlands, or along watercourses, often in clayey or sandy soils, at elevations from 10 to 400 m (30 to 1,300 ft). It may come to dominate an area as a thorny scrubland.
Correll's snakewood · Bitter snakewood · Condalia microphylla · Condalia velutina · Snakewood · Rhamnus diffusa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Condalia hookeri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
