toyon

American  

[toi-on, -ohn] / ˈtɔɪ ɒn, -oʊn /

1. an evergreen, rosaceous shrub or small tree, Heteromeles arbutifolia (orPhotinia arbutifolia ), of California and northern Mexico, having clusters of small, white flowers and bright red berries.

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Etymology

Origin of toyon

1840–50, variant of tollon < Mexican Spanish tollón

Example Sentences

Mace said she’d build a concrete house and the yard would have oak, sycamore, toyon, lemonade berry and lilac.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Nicole recommended California live oak and toyon, and even some non-natives, including bird of paradise.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

Acres of terraced growing areas and multiple greenhouses produced many native plants grown from seed collected around the park such as sumacs, ceanothus, yellow-blooming flannel bush, manzanitas, barberries, monkeyflowers, Catalina cherry, toyon and coffeeberry.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

They’ll also include wildflowers and shrubs like toyon, laurel sumac and ceanothus.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

He threaded among willows and sycamores and wild blackberry vines in the riverbed, patted the trunks of live oak and scrub oak, madrone, laurel, toyon.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck