BAY CEDAR

Suriana maritima

3 to 12 feet

Slow rate of growth

Full sun to partial shade

Excellent salt and drought tolerance

Cold sensitive

Zones 10 to 11

A delicate, evergreen shrub or small tree with a dense,

rounded crown and erect to ascending branches with

flat, fleshy, gray-green leaves and small yellow flowers,

both bunched near the branch tips. Larval host plant for mallow scrub-hairstreak

(Strymon istapa), martial scrub-hairstreak (Strymon martialis) butterflies.

Useful for coastal areas or saltwater canals.

http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2808

http://www.regionalconservation.org/beta/nfyn/plantdetail.asp?tx=Surimari

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fp565