General Landscape Uses: Ornamental landscaping

Ecological Restoration Notes: Drought-prone or sandy soil restoration, coastal landscaping and windbreaks, pollinator support

Description: The leaves are shiny dark green above, paler green and prominently veined below, leathery, and narrowly egg-shaped with a distinctive rounded tip. The leaves are clustered near the tips of the thick, fleshy, knobbly, brown branches.

Dimensions: Height 20 ft.

Growth Rate: Moderate to fast

Native Range: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and the Caribbean.

Native Habitats: Coastal areas

Soils: Well-draining, sandy or loamy, slightly acidic to neutral pH

Nutritional Requirements: Moderate to high

Salt Water Tolerance: Moderate

Salt Wind Tolerance: Moderate

Drought Tolerance: High

Light Requirements: Full Sun

Flower Color: White with a yellow center

Flower Characteristics: Fragrant, rounded, bouquet-like, tubular

Flowering Season: All year

Fruit: Dry, brown, linear-oblong seed follicles containing numerous winged seeds

Wildlife and Ecology: Pollinator support, birds and mammals feed on seeds, soil stabilization

Horticultural Notes: Grown from cuttings, seed

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