Thickleaf coffeeberry Thickleaf coffeeberry

Rhamnus californica Eschscholtz var. crassifolia Jepson, Man. Fl. Pl. Calif., 615. 1925; R. californica subsp. crassifolia (Jepson) C. B. Wolf; R. tomentella Bentham subsp. crassifolia (Jepson) J. O. Sawyer

Leaf blades green to gray-green adaxially, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 8–10 cm, margins usually entire, sometimes serrulate, flat, apex obtuse to rounded, abaxial surface densely and closely white stellate-hairy, without intermixed simple, erect hairs, adaxial surface moderately to densely hirsutulous and sparsely stellate-hairy; veins prominent abaxially. Drupe stones 2.

Flowering Feb–Apr. Chaparral, woodlands; 300–1400 m; Calif.