Arbutus arizonica, commonly known as Arizona madrone, is a tree species in the heath family that is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. Its range extends along the Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera from the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New MexicoBiota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map south as far as Jalisco. It has been found in Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa, with one isolated population in Tamaulipas.SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, description, distribution map
Arbutus arizonica is a tree that grows up to , and has pinkish-brown bark. The fruit is an orange-red berry.Flora of North America, Arbutus arizonica (A. Gray) Sargent, 1891. Arizona madrone The fruits are edible by humans and used by some indigenous peoples.Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991a. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Arizona in 1881