Garrya

Genus of plants

Garrya

Garrya catkins in February at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Garryales
Family:  | Garryaceae
Genus:  | Garrya
Douglas ex Lindl.
Synonyms[1]

* Fadyenia Endl.

Garrya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Garryaceae native to Mexico, the western United States, Central America and the Greater Antilles.[1] Common names include silk tassel and tassel bush.[2][page needed]

They are evergreen dioecious wind-pollinated shrubs growing to 1–5 m (3–16 ft) tall. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, and are simple, leathery, dark green to gray-green, ovate, 3–15 cm (1–6 in) long, with an entire margin and a short petiole. The flowers are gray-green catkins, short and spreading when first produced in late summer; the male catkins becoming long (3–20 cm (1–8 in)) and pendulous in late winter when shedding pollen; the female catkins usually a little shorter and less pendulous. The fruit is a round dry berry containing two seeds.[3]

## Species

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* Garrya buxifolia – dwarf silktassel; western Oregon, northern California
* Garrya congdonii – chaparral silktassel; California
* Garrya corvorum – Guatemala
* Garrya elliptica – coast silktassel, wavyleaf silktassel; western Oregon, western California
* Garrya fadyenii – Fadyen's silktassel; Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola; naturalised in Leeward Islands
* Garrya flavescens – ashy silktassel; California and Baja California, northeast to Utah and New Mexico
* Garrya fremontii – bearbrush silktassel; southern Washington, Oregon, California, northwestern Nevada
* Garrya glaberrima – Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León
* Garrya goldmannii – southeastern New Mexico, southwestern Texas, and northeastern Mexico
* Garrya grisea – Baja California
* Garrya laurifolia – laurelleaf silktassel; widespread from Chihuahua and Tamaulipas south to Panama
* Garrya lindheimeri – southwestern Texas and northeastern Mexico
* Garrya longifolia – Durango, Jalisco, Guerrero, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Morelos, Mexico State, Distrito Federal de México
* Garrya mexicana – southern Nuevo León
* Garrya ovata – eggleaf silktassel; New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua, Oaxaca
* Garrya salicifolia – willowleaf silktassel; Baja California, Baja California Sur
* Garrya veatchii – canyon silktassel; California, Baja California
* Garrya wrightii – Wright's silktassel; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Coahuila

## Cultivation and uses

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Some species, notably Garrya elliptica, are widely cultivated in gardens for their foliage and the catkins produced in late winter. They are frequently grown against a wall, or as a windbreak in coastal areas.[4] Male plants are more widely grown, as their catkins are longer and more attractive; one such cultivar, G. elliptica 'James Roof', has catkins up to 35 cm (14 in) long. The hybrids G. × issaquahensis (G. elliptica × G. fremontii) and G. × thuretii (G. elliptica × G. fadyenii) have been bred for garden planting.

## References

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1. ^ a b Govaerts, R. "Garrya Douglas ex Lindl". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens.
2. ^ Gledhill, David (1996) [1989]. The Names of Plants (2nd ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521366755.
3. ^ Dahling, Gerald V. (1978). "Systematics and evolution of Garrya". Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (209). Harvard University Herbaria: 1, 3–104\. doi:10.5962/p.336448. JSTOR 41764821. S2CID 249085312.
4. ^ Brickell, Christopher; Royal Horticultural Society (2008). RHS A–Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 1128\. ISBN 978-1405332965.

## External links

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* Media related to Garrya at Wikimedia Commons
* Data related to Garrya at Wikispecies
* Garrya map on DiscoverLife.org

Taxon identifiers

Garrya|

* Wikidata: Q813604
* Wikispecies: Garrya
* CoL: 8VXS8
* EoL: 44512
* EPPO: 1GARG
* FNA: 113275
* GBIF: 3033006
* GRIN: 4851
* iNaturalist: 53402
* IPNI: 12080-1
* IRMNG: 1311869
* ITIS: 27826
* NBN: NHMSYS0000458985
* NCBI: 4287
* NZOR: 3d136078-014b-4f92-9eb9-ff149dcaa97b
* Open Tree of Life: 148272
* PLANTS: GARRY
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30004786-2
* Tropicos: 40012576
* WFO: wfo-4000015342