This is growing next to the Crinodendrum in front of the amphitheatre. It's about my height, has a few tall branches with some but not a lot of secondary branching. Stems are shiny red. Branching is opposite. Leaves are pinnately compound, possibly more than once, but I think that what looks like little fern leaflets (I have a fern with leaves that look just like this) may be just very deeply incised. I'm eager to have a name so I can look it up for a description of what I'm seeing but not understanding. Those little almost leaflet things also cover the leaf rachis.
Thank you! Fern-leaf Catalina ironwood! In Garden Explorer as Lyonothamnus floribundus subsp. asplenifolius. This California native is going to be a big tree, if it survives in our climate. There are some good photos at Lyonothamnus floribundus subsp. aspleniifolius (Catalina Ironwood) (gardenia.net) and UFEI - SelecTree: A Tree Selection Guide (calpoly.edu). Catalina Ironwood - UC Master Gardeners- Diggin' it in SLO - ANR Blogs (ucanr.edu) describes the leaves as "deep green above, gray and hairy beneath and pinnately or palmately divided into 3-7 deeply notched or lobed leaflets." Rosaceae family, with those little white flowers in clusters that look like so many shrubs in that family.
Thanks for that link, Ron. The Arthur Lee Jacobsen article is interesting on so many counts - seeing those photos; the bit about how its range has shrunk in a few million years from throughout the western US to just islands off southern California, yet knowing how well it can do in Seattle; his description of the tree, including seeing what it can do in less than 20 years, yet he mentions that in dryer conditions it can be a shrub; interest in testing its cold-hardiness (nice that UBCBG is doing that). And its deer resistance.
