Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures ( Trees ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Mexican Manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens), Ericaceae Family, Texas native, evergreen, blooms January through March

Mexican manzanita (Arctostaphylos pungens) is also known as point-leaf manzanita, bear-berry, kinnikinnick, pinguica, palo de pinguica and Manzana. It natively inhabits woodlands, sunny woodland edges, rocky slopes, ridges and chaparrals. It often forms dense thickets. In Texas, it can be found in only two populations in the Trans-Pecos, although it grows west to California and north to Utah. Mexican manzanita is a low-maintenance plant and a lovely ornamental with its crooked branches for the landscape, but is difficult to find commercially.

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/99670/index.html

Its growth habit ...