. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 850 The Elders small fruit is usually bright scarlet but some plants produce yellow and still others brownish colored California Tree Elder. 2. CALIFORNIA TREE ELDER — Sambncus callicarpa Greene This tree, known only from California, where it is quite widely distributed in the Coast Mountains, reaches a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm.; it probably extends northward into Oregon, and is of
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 850 The Elders small fruit is usually bright scarlet but some plants produce yellow and still others brownish colored California Tree Elder. 2. CALIFORNIA TREE ELDER — Sambncus callicarpa Greene This tree, known only from California, where it is quite widely distributed in the Coast Mountains, reaches a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm.; it probably extends northward into Oregon, and is often a mere shrub. The Ught brown bark is slightly fis- sured. The young twigs are somewhat hairy, becoming Ught red-brown with age, and filled with a thick white pith. The yoimg leaves are sparsely covered with stiff hairs and provided with small callous-tipped stipules; the 5 to 9 short- stalked leaflets are thin, oval to oblong- obovate, 5 to 10 cm. long, acute or blunt, quite unequally rounded at the base, and closely and deeply toothed; they are dark green on the upper side and lighter green beneath. The white flowers are densely crowded in the ovoid cymes. The fruit is bright red, about 5 mm. in diameter. 3. MEXICAN ELDER Sambucus mexicana Presl This southwestern species, reaching a maximum height of 10 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm., occurs in river valleys and on margins of streams from western Texas westwardly to southern CaUfomia, and south to southern Mexico; it is also called Elder- berry tree. The light brown bark is about 6 cm. thick and scaly. The twigs are hght green, more or less hairy, becoming brownish red. The leaves, borne on stout leaf-stalks to 3 cm. long, are usually hairy on both sides, especially so beneath, or become nearly smooth when old. The leaflets, usually 5 in number, are thick and firm, ovate to ovate-lanceo-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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