. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. it is found in company withthe Pecan, King-nut Hickory, Water andHoney Locusts, Forestiera, Pin and ShingleOaks, Cottonwood, etc., and among them itsfull rounded top is one of tlie most attractiveobjects particulaily when in tlower or bearingits ripe fruit. Leaves mostly elliptic to lance-ovate or obovatc,IV^-o in. long, ciineate or abruptly contracted andentire at base, mostly acute or bluntly pointed atapex, irregularly serrate or serrate-dentate, someon vigorous shoots with shallow lobe
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. it is found in company withthe Pecan, King-nut Hickory, Water andHoney Locusts, Forestiera, Pin and ShingleOaks, Cottonwood, etc., and among them itsfull rounded top is one of tlie most attractiveobjects particulaily when in tlower or bearingits ripe fruit. Leaves mostly elliptic to lance-ovate or obovatc,IV^-o in. long, ciineate or abruptly contracted andentire at base, mostly acute or bluntly pointed atapex, irregularly serrate or serrate-dentate, someon vigorous shoots with shallow lobes, glabrousor with pale hairs in the axils beneath ; petiolesslender 1-11/4 in. long. Flotcers in May, about% in. across, in many-flowered compound corymbs,with long slender glabrous pedicels; calyx glab-rous, with narrow entire lobes; stamens 20, an-thers pale yellow ; styles usually 5 with pale hairsat base. Fruit subglobose or somewhat obovoid,bright scarlet or orange, about H in. long or less,in drooping clusters with long slender stems;flesh thin, nutlets usually .>. slightly ribbed
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