Hardiness zones
Sunset 8-9, 12-24
USDA 9-11

Landscape Use: Small to medium sized evergreen tree, background screen

Form & Character: Evergreen shrub to small multiple-trunk tree; stems and branches are amazingly limber and flexible. It is broadly spreading which limits its usefulness in small urban spaces.

Growth Habit: Moderately slow to 25' with greater spread

Foliage/texture: Glabrous, leathery, pinnately compound foliage, 3-5 pairs of leaflets, 1" long, oblong to elliptic, petiole winged, medium coarse texture

Flowers & fruits: Inconspicuous flowers, clusters of small red fruits ripening to black.

Seasonal color: None

Temperature: Tolerant

Light: Full sun

Soil: Well drained, avoid caliche

Watering: Give infrequent deep water to regular lawn watering conditions

Pruning: Elevate canopy base, train to multiple trunk small tree

Propagation: Cutting, seed

Disease and pests: None

Additional comments: Lesser known and least available of pastiche trees in the Phoenix area. This tree is a bonafide botanical member of the 'Fantastic Four' with it's flexible and bendable branches and stems.