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Reading about San Francisco celebrating the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), I realized 2015 also marks the approximate centennial of the arrival of one of the best ...

Arbutus 'Marina' is related to our native madrone (A. menziesii) and to the strawberry tree (A. unedo), a fact that is evident when you see its evergreen leaves and clusters of flowers. 'Marina' is an ...

A member of the heath family, it belongs to the genus Arbutus, of which there are at least fourteen species of flowering shrubs and trees. Arbutus unedo is indigenous to southern Europe and Ireland.

As UC Marin Master Gardeners, we have an obligation to provide science-based information. Sometimes, though, the science we need is elusive. Take the strawberry tree, the Arbutus ‘Marina’ or unedo.