Water Needs
Light Needs
Common Name
Birch-Leaf Mountain Mahogany
Scientific Name
Cercocarpus montanus
Botanical Pronunciation
ser-koe-KAR-pus mon-TAN-us
Plant Type
Broadleaf Evergreen Trees
Deciduous / Evergreen
Deciduous
Special Features
Native to Utah, American Indians used wood from Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany to make tools and war clubs. Hopi Indians used the bark to make a reddish-brown dye for leather.
Blooms
Summer, Flowers are either solitary or in clusters of 2 to 3 flowers on short spur branchlets. They are tube-shaped, greenish-yellow in color, and lack petals.
Growth Habit
Upright and spreading
Growth Rate
Slow
Average Landscape Size
18' x 15'
Landscape Uses
Hedge, Erosion control
Care Information
Drought resistant
