Rooting cuttings of shrub species for plantings in California wildlands

Eamor C. Nord; J. R. Goodin

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Rooting cuttings of shrub species for plantings in California wildlands

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Authors:

Eamor C. Nord, J. R. Goodin

Year:

1970

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Res. Note PSW-RN-213. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p

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Abstract

Selected shrub species are being studied in southern California for their possible fuel volume or slow burning characteristics. In propagation tests, five species-fourwing, Gardner's, Nuttall's, and allscale saltbushes; and creeping sage - rooted successfully from green tip and ripewood stem cuttings taken in spring and fall and placed under intermittent mist. Practically no rooting resulted from cuttings of two other species studied: hairy yerbasanta and woolly nama. Green tip cuttings treated with hormone rooted faster and more often than similar cuttings without hormone, or ripewood cuttings with or without treatment.

Keywords

Atriplex spp, Salvh sonomensis, propagation tests, stem cuttings, rooting ability, fire hazard reduction, fuel modification

Citation

Nord, Eamor C.; Goodin, J. R. 1970. Rooting cuttings of shrub species for plantings in California wildlands. Res. Note PSW-RN-213. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 4 p