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Plant · P-056
Wax Myrtle
Myrica cerifera
An evergreen nitrogen-fixing shrub that doubles as a year-round windbreak and screen at 6 to 20 ft, tolerating salt spray, wind and soil poor enough that almost nothing else grows on it. Alkaline clay above pH 7.2 still causes iron chlorosis, but a medium calcium-carbonate tolerance narrows the gap to about half a point, bridgeable with a pine-bark-and-sulfur bed or chelated iron.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun · Shade
- USDA zone
- USDA 7–10
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate · Wet
Vertical layer
Shrub- Soil pH
- 5–7.2
- Plant type
- Evergreen Tree
- Mature height
- 6–20 ft
- Mature spread
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