. 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. 740 The Tupelos. Fig. 677. — Tupelo Gum. angular-toothed on the margin, dark green, shining and nearly smooth above, pale and thinly woolly beneath; the leaf-stalk is stout, hairy, 2 to 5 cm. long. The flowers, which appear from March to May, are on long, slender, hairy stalks, the staminate in dense globose heads i to cm. in diame- ter; the pistillate flowers are soUtary, sub- tended by several linear bracts 8 to 12
. 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. 740 The Tupelos. Fig. 677. — Tupelo Gum. angular-toothed on the margin, dark green, shining and nearly smooth above, pale and thinly woolly beneath; the leaf-stalk is stout, hairy, 2 to 5 cm. long. The flowers, which appear from March to May, are on long, slender, hairy stalks, the staminate in dense globose heads i to cm. in diame- ter; the pistillate flowers are soUtary, sub- tended by several linear bracts 8 to 12 mm. long; the petals are oblong and blvmt, much shorter than the calyx-tube; the style is coiled or curved at the top. The fruit, ripening in September, is borne on a slender stalk 4 to 9 cm. long; it is oblong or oblong-obovoid, nearly 3 cm. long, usually dark purple; the flesh is thin and acrid, the stone ovate, sUghtly flattened, pointed at the base, and has about 10 sharp ridges; the seed is com- pressed. The wood is soft, weak, close-grained, light brown, with a specific gmvity of about , and is used for woodenware, pack- ing-boxes, and crates. It is not known to have been successfully brought into cultivation. 4. OGECHE PLUM—Nyssa Ogeche Marshall. This is a round-headed tree, known also as the Ogeche lime. Gopher plum. Wild Hme tree, and Tupelo. It is pecuUar to the swamps of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, attaining a maximum height of about 20 meters, with a trunk diameter up to 6 dm., usually much smaller and sometimes shrubby. The bark is about 5 mm. thick, broken into large dark brown scales. The twigs are reddish velvety, becoming nearly smooth, gray to brown. The buds are about 4 mm. long, blunt, and covered with hairy scales. The leaves are firm, oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, 5 to 20 cm. long, rounded and minutely tipped at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, entire margined, dark green, somewhat shining, and nearly smooth above, pale and s
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