Silk tassel bush

It flourishes beside the garage, with no irrigation. Will have to look more closely to see what kind of garrya it is. Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrya_elliptica
In extra, the same image cropped. 
Adding one extra on 29th Dec.  Still not convinced about the species identification. 
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?key=10336 Not seeing abaxial hairs.