Heteromeles arbutifolia The drawing was made from a small evergreen tree in our hillside forest in the Napa Valley. The toyon is native to most parts of California (except the deserts) and to Baja California. Also known as Christmas berry and California holly, the toyon is a bright and welcome sight in the winter landscape from November through January. California Indians ate the berries after baking or roasting them in a basket of hot coals. Toyon and madrone berries were the last harvest of the year. —Marsha Onomiya Evans
101 copies were printed and sell for $200 each.