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Crossosoma californicum
Also called California Crossosoma, California Crabapple Bush, Catalina Crabapple Bush, Catalina Crossosoma
California rockflower is a sprawling, thorny shrub or small tree native to coastal Southern California, the Channel Islands and Guadalupe Island. It grows well in full sun with very good drainage and needs little water once established.
Crossosoma californicum, known by the common name California rockflower, is one of only a few species in the flowering plant family Crossosomataceae.
Crossosoma californicum is native to San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands, two of the Channel Islands of California, as well as Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crossosoma californicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
