Myrica californica (California bayberry, California wax myrtle or Pacific wax myrtle; syn. Its common names include southern wax myrtle, southern bayberry, candleberry, bayberry tree, and tallow shrub. Northern bayberry hybridizes with both southern bayberry and wax myrtle. Common names include bayberry, bay-rum tree, candleberry, sweet gale, and wax-myrtle. Also present are self-sown sumac, poplar, poison ivy, and bayberry. Bayberry wax is an aromatic green vegetable wax. Common shrubs include bayberry, beach plum, raspberry, Virginia rose and saltspray rose. Its common names include box myrtle, bayberry and kaphal. The berries can be used to make bayberry wax candles. Dominant upland vegetation includes rose, poison ivy, bayberry, and arrowwood. Its common names include bayberry, southern bayberry, pocosin bayberry, and evergreen bayberry. It is removed from the surface of the fruit of the bayberry (wax-myrtle) shrub (ex.