EcoFlora - Persea borbonia

Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.
Family: Lauraceae Red Bay [Laurus borbonia] $Persea borbonia image$	FNA Resources B. Eugene Wofford in Flora of North America (vol. 3) Trees , to 25 m. Branches appressed-pubescent. Leaf blade narrowly elliptic to widely ovate, 6-16 × 2-5 cm; surfaces abaxially pale, glaucous, moderately pubescent when young with rusty brown, appressed hairs, glabrescent with age, adaxially green, lustrous. Inflorescences: peduncle equal to or shorter than subtending leaf petiole, pubescent. Drupe (8-)10 mm diam., usually glaucous. 2 n = 24. Flowering spring-early summer. In hammocks, mixed hardwoods, coastal dunes, maritime forests; outer Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, rarely in the Piedmont; 0-100 m; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tex. Some Native Americans used Persea borbonia for medicinal purposes (D. E. Moerman 1986).
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