Have you tried to grow a Pacific Madrona? “Madrona” is a Seattle word, south of the Willamette it is “Madrone,” in BC “Arbutus.” A teaspoon of soil from an area where this tree grows, spread over a SW facing planting area, is the secret. A mycorrhizal fungus symbiont
is needed as neither can live without the other. Found at Kiosk 16 in Bonhoeffer Gardens as the featured deciduous tree that does not shed its leaves, it complements the Western Larch, the “evergreen” that loses its needles. Susceptible to pollution, a declining number of Arbutus now grow from San Francisco Bay to Ketchikan (Cascadia), each a bit different in height, color, size, structure, and DNA. A super clone would make these variances extinct. Perhaps in 40 years, a single clone will exist as a companion to the Super Doug clone. Then perhaps, Suparmadronea? will have but 1 name. It could happen; it could happen to any species.
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Arbutus+menziesii
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Arbutus%20menziesii
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=ARME
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_menziesii
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Arbutus+menziesii
https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Arbutus%20menziesii
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=ARME
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_menziesii
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Kiosk-16.pdf
In Canada the Madrona is referred to as the:
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