Rosaceae
Curl-leaf mountain mahogany
Cercocarpus ledifolius
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Cercocarpus
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Common names
By language (3)
- Chinese
- 卷叶山红木, 山红木
- English
- Curl-leaf mountain mahogany
- Hebrew
- צרקוקרפוס
Flowers
- Flower colour
- yellow (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Toxicity: Slight, as listed by the USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29). USDA rates how toxic a plant is to people or livestock; it is not a pet-safety rating, so ask a vet or poison line if a pet or child ate it.
Photos
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Wsiegmund assumed, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.