. 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. 726 Stoppers 3. RED STOPPER —Eugenia rhombea (Berg) Krug and Urban Eugenia procera Nuttall, not Poiret. E. fatida rhombea Berg This small West Indian tree is only known to occur in our area on several of the Florida Keys, but is abundant in the West Indies, attaining a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. It is also called Spiceberry. The bark is about mm. thick, close and smooth, light gray or r
. 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. 726 Stoppers 3. RED STOPPER —Eugenia rhombea (Berg) Krug and Urban Eugenia procera Nuttall, not Poiret. E. fatida rhombea Berg This small West Indian tree is only known to occur in our area on several of the Florida Keys, but is abundant in the West Indies, attaining a maximum height of 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 3 dm. It is also called Spiceberry. The bark is about mm. thick, close and smooth, light gray or reddish gray. The twigs are slender, roimd, purplish or reddish, becoming gray or white. The leaves are firm, scarcely leathery, ovate to elliptic, 3 to 6 cm. long, bluntly taper-pointed, roimded -or grad- ually tapering to the short peti- ole, thickened on the margin, bright green, dull and smooth above, paler and black-dotted be- neath. The flowers, appearing from spring to autumn, are in small umbel-like clusters, each on a slender pedicel 8 to 15 mm. long. The calyx-tube is shorter than its 4 rounded lobes; corolla Fig. Stopper. ^^^^^ jt^ broadly ovate petals twice the length of the calyx-lobes. The fruit is depressed-globose, 16 to 22 nmi. in diameter, slightly glandular, conspicuously crowned by the persistent calyx- lobes, orange, reddish or black v/hen ripe; the flesh is thin and dry; seed nearly globular, brown, and shining. This is one of the most beautiful trees of Florida when laden with 4. CAREER'S STOPPER —Eugenia confusa de CandoUe Eugenia Garheri Sargent Garber's stopper is by far the largest native tree of its family, in our area. It grows in hammocks in southern peninsular Florida and the Keys, also in the Bahamas and Porto Rico and Jamaica; its maximum height is about 18 meters, with a trunk diameter of 5 dm. It is also known as Red stopper. The branches are spreading and ascending, forming a dense tree. The bark is about 5 mm. thick, sepa
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