- Author
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Nord, E. C.
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Goodin, J. R.
- Title
- Rooting Cuttings of Shrub Species for Plantings in California Wildlands.
- Coporate
- Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experimental Station, Berkeley, CA
- Report
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Research Note PSW-213
1970
4 p.
- Keywords
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wildland fires
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forestry
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fire hazard
- Identifiers
- Salvia sonomensis; stem cuttings; rooting ability; fire hazard reduction; fuel modification
- Abstract
- Selected shrub species are being studied in southern California for their possible fuel volume or slow burning characteristics. In propagaton tests, five species - fourwing, Garnder's Nuttall', and allscale saltbushes; and creeping sage - rooted successfully from green tip and ripewood stem cuttings taken in spring and fall and placed under intermittent mist. Practically no rooting resulted from cuttings of two other species studied: hairy yerbasanta and woolly nama. Green tip cuttings treated with hormone rooted faster and more often than similar cuttings without hormone, or ripewood cuttings with or without treatment.