The berries are boiled, and the water changed ... “These guys looked up in the hills and they saw all the toyon trees with their brilliant red fruit, and they called the place ‘Hollywood.’ ...

As far as plants go, toyon is not remarkable at first glance. Without those bright berries, they can be easily confused with several other shrubby plants. They’re not rare either. They grow ...

Technically a shrub up to 10 feet by 10 feet, our native toyon, also known as California Holly, can be pruned into a very attractive single- or multi-trunk, small evergreen tree, 20 feet tall by ...

If you live anywhere on the Central Coast, you can find the evergreen toyon tree. This under-utilized native species, also known as Christmas berry, is adaptable to most soil conditions ...

Toyon or Christmas berry Heteromeles arbutifolia Size: 10 to 15 feet tall Bloom season: Spring Pruning needs: Little or none. Exposure: Full sun to partial shade. Water needs: Once established ...

Toyon, or “Christmas-berry,” one of the more distinctive shrubs ... of inland reservoirs such as Lake Murray and Lake Miramar. Tree Aloes, the familiar succulent plants with red-hot-pokerlike ...

Description: This handsome shrub announces the holiday season with bunches of red berries ... tree; a Sunnyvale gardener has successfully espaliered it against the fence. On larger properties ...

we first thought of toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), a large shrub or small tree that's also called Christmasberry or California holly - the "holly" in Hollywood. Its orange-red berries ripen from ...

affected trees and concerns to consider when landscaping. The rewards of toyon are many. Butterfly and birds love it, qualifying it as a habitat plant. The berries persist for a long time ...

Toyon, or “Christmas berry,” one of the more distinctive shrubs of southern California’s native chaparral plant community, has begun to flaunt clusters of red berries. Hollywood (California ...

The berries are really a product of toyon, a native shrub that also goes by the name “Christmas berry” because of the time of year when it fruits. Many wild creatures consume Christmas berries ...