Adolphia is a genus of shrubs in the buckthorn family containing only two species.
These are rigid, thorny, flowering bushes. Adolphia californica , the California prickbush or California spineshrub, are native to southern California and northern Mexico. Adolphia infesta , the junco, is found in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.
This genus is named for the French botanist Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801âÂÂ1876). It was first described and published in Pl. Vasc. Gen. on page 70 in 1837.