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cha·mise

 (chə-mēz′) also cha·mi·so (-mē′sō)
n. pl. cha·mi·ses also cha·mi·sos
An evergreen shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) in the rose family, native to California and Baja California, having small needlelike leaves in fascicles and clusters of small white flowers.

[Spanish chamisa, from Galician chamiça, dry brush, firewood, from chama, flame, from Latin flamma; see flame.]
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chamiso

(ʃəˈmiːsəʊ)
n
an evergreen shrub with yellow-green flowers native to the western United States
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(2017), for example, recorded oxidative stress indicators in Atriplex canescens growing in a range of bauxite residue treatments and noted these were decreased following gypsum application.
The well-drained soils of the upland areas immediately surrounding the cienega support shrubland dominated by Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolos airoides) and Four Wing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens), and include Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosd), Big Alkali Sacaton (Sporobolos wrightii), and Tobosa (Hilaria muticd).
We did not observe evidence of beavers cutting skunkbush sumac (Rhus trilobata) or fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens).
Seedlings of a variety of halophytic marsh species including Suaeda esteroa, estuary seablite, and Salicornia bigelovii, dwarf pickleweed, and a variety of coastal sage scrub species like Atriplex canescens, four-wing salt bush, have been successfully grown in greenhouses and transplanted for restoration purposes (Zedler 2001, Francis 2009).
tenuipennis is abundant on fourwing saltbush, Atriplex canescens; it also occurs on cattle saltbush, Atriplex polycarpa, seepweed or seabite, Suaeda spp., greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus, and introduced prickly Russian thistle, Salsola tragus (Ball et al.
Les arthropodes associACopyrights A Atriplex alimus et Atriplex canescens dans la rACopyrightgion de Djelfa.
In vitro regeneration of fourwing salt bush Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
For example, in their study of plant water stress, Freeman and McArthur (1982) found no difference in the water stress of male and female Atriplex canescens (a desert shrub) in June when they flower, but that females became progressively more stressed as they matured their fruits in July and August.
They are Nerium oleander (Oleander) and its dwarf forms, Thevetia peruviana (Yellow oleander), Atriplex halimus Mediterranean saltbush), Atriplex canescens (Four-wing saltbush), Caesalpinia pulcherrima (Dwarf Poinciana or Pride of Barbados) and Tecoma stans (Yellow trumpet bush).
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