VENTURA COUNTY STAR - California scientists discovered a new species of manzanita, believed to grow only in places along the state’s south-central coast.
And unlike its sister shrubs, its bark is gray instead of red, its discoverers said.
As far as researchers know, the new species of native California shrub grows only near the Santa Barbara County and San Luis Obispo County border, said Jules Bernstein, spokesperson for U.C. Riverside’s natural and agricultural sciences program. “Most are found in the town of Nipomo, on the Nipomo Mesa,” she said. The area is just northeast of Woodlands at Blacklake.