Cercocarpus pringlei

Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: leaves Cercocarpus pringlei is a rose plant species which was first described by Camillo Karl Schneider , and was given its current name by Per Axel Rydberg . Cercocarpus pringlei is included in the genus Cercocarpus and the family rose plants . Cercocarpus, commonly known as mountain mahogany, is a small genus of five or six species of nitrogen-fixing flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae. They are native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where they grow in chaparral and semidesert habitats and climates, often at high altitudes. Several are found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion.