Hardiness zones:
Sunset 4-24
USDA 7-11

Landscape Use: Background, barrier, screen, informal hedge, informal filler, foliar accent

Form & Character: Evergreen, upright and sprawling shrub, informal, wild, out of control

Growth Habit: Moderate growth rate to 10 to 15' with equal spread, often produces long arching and sprawling branches.  Overall, it may be maintained at 1/2 of this size with regular pruning.

Foliage/texture: Leaves oval to oblong to 3" long, silvery on abaxial side, adaxial side with brown scales giving bronze caste, sometimes with wavy leaf margins and prominent stipular spines; medium texture.

Flowers & fruits: Inconspicuous flowers, fruit a small and round, edible when red ripe in the fall.

Seasonal color: Mostly none, though fruit are displayed in the fall (not very ornamental).

Temperature: Very hardy

Light: Partial shade to full sun

Soil: Regular

Watering: Regular to infrequent deep irrigations.

Pruning: Typically this plant high a high pruning requirement ranging from frequent heading back to shearing. This is all because most people have a low tolerance for 'wild' and out-of-control' plants in managed urban settings.

Propagation: Softwood cuttings, grafting.

Disease and pests: None

Additional comments: This is an old fashioned tough landscape plant that is seldom found in local retail nurseries. If inappropriately placed in the landscape, the maintenance requirements of this sprawling shrub can be very high!!! E. pungens x E. glabra 'Knotts' is dwarf and compact hybrid cultivar that has much higher used potential in smaller urban spaces.