Plant Database
Marina Strawberry Tree
Arbutus ‘Marina’
The Marina Strawberry Tree is a true four-season workhorse for the Bay Area landscape. This exceptionally tough, evergreen tree offers year-round beauty with its glossy foliage, showy peeling bark, winter flowers, and decorative edible fruit—all with minimal water once established. It’s the ideal, fire-smart tree for creating privacy, structure, and enduring interest.
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Provides continuous visual interest: cinnamon-red peeling bark, glossy dark green leaves, clusters of pink bell-shaped flowers in fall/winter, and showy yellow & red fruit year-round.
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Thrives in the Bay Area’s Mediterranean climate with exceptional drought tolerance and adaptability to various soils, including clay, once established.
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Serves as an excellent evergreen screen, windbreak, or specimen tree, valued for its dense, rounded canopy and fire-resistant properties (low flammability rating).
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Grows at a slow to moderate pace, eventually reaching a substantial size (25-40 ft), making it a long-lived, permanent asset to the garden.
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Supports local ecology, with winter flowers providing nectar for hummingbirds and bees when few other plants are blooming.