Texas Snakewood
Colubrina texensis
Texas snakewood is a stiff, intricately branched shrub of Texas brushlands with small greenish flowers and dark fruit for birds, exceptionally drought- and heat-tolerant.
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–8 ft
- Spacing
- 4–8 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July
- Bloom colors
- green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- TX