Simmondsia chinensis

Jojoba

Fruiting branches; detail from image below.

Jojoba (pronounced ho-HO-bah) is dioecious, which means there are separate staminate and pistillate flowers, and any one shrub has only one or the other. Since the plant in the image has fruit, it is pistillate.

Tonto National Forest: Along Roosevelt Lake, in Cholla Campground,
Jumping Cholla loop, at ca. 2200 feet elevation; Gila County.

11 April 2005.

Fruiting branches of Simmondsia chinensis, Cholla Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona.

Fruiting branches.

11 April 2005.

Pistillate flowering branches of Simmondsia chinensis, Cholla Campground, Tonto National Forest, Arizona.

Staminate flowering branches.

Same vicinity as prior images.

11 April 2005.

Fruiting branch of Simmondsia chinensis, along state highway 96, Yavapai County, Arizona.

Branch with mature fruit.

Along state highway 96 west of milepost 18, at ca. 2700 feet elevation,
Yavapai County.

18 October 2004.

Staminate branches of Simmondsia chinensis, along state highway 96, Yavapai County, Arizona.

Staminate branches with dry flowers.

Same vicinity as prior image.

18 October 2004.

This page revised 5 November 2006.

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