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.’ ...

This is a great year for toyon berries. Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia ... and you're still puzzling it out when the flock tosses itself from the tree like confetti. Closer, waxwings are all ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” 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 ...

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 ...

The berries are eaten by birds ... have its lower branches pruned out so that it takes the form of a small tree. The Toyon belongs to the Rose Family, so it is not surprising that its red fruit ...

A cedar waxwing gobbles up a toyon berry near Lake Los Carneros Park. Credit ... Phoradendron leucarpum, also called American or oak mistletoe, retains its elliptic green leaves even as it’s host tree ...

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 ...

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 ...