Garrya ellipticaDouglas ex Lindl.

Coast silk tassel

WFO wfo-0000428258 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Garrya elliptica, photographed by Michael Warner
fig. a Michael Warner, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-04 / obs. 194951396
Garrya elliptica, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. b joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204726416
Garrya elliptica, photographed by Aaron Liston
fig. c Aaron Liston, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198541272
Garrya elliptica, photographed by Nicholas Wei
fig. d Nicholas Wei, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184768059
Garrya elliptica, photographed by Alex
fig. e Alex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195746362
Garrya elliptica, photographed by Karen and Mike
fig. f Karen and Mike, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178764960
Garrya elliptica, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. g Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177092103
Garrya elliptica, photographed by joergmlpts
fig. h joergmlpts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178059148

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 654 observations

Peak flowering in Jan, from 654 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Garrya lindleyana A.Murray bis

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.