. 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. Mahaleb 501 The bark is about 8 mm. thick, usually smooth and dark gray; the twigs are slender, hairy, becoming smooth and gray- brown. The leaves are thick-membranous, oval to obovate, 4 to 9 cm. long, blunt or more or less pointed at the apex, narrowed and 2-glandular at the base, margined by gland- tipped teeth, dark green with impressed mid- rib above, paler and woolly beneath; leaf-stalk slender, channelled and hairy
. 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. Mahaleb 501 The bark is about 8 mm. thick, usually smooth and dark gray; the twigs are slender, hairy, becoming smooth and gray- brown. The leaves are thick-membranous, oval to obovate, 4 to 9 cm. long, blunt or more or less pointed at the apex, narrowed and 2-glandular at the base, margined by gland- tipped teeth, dark green with impressed mid- rib above, paler and woolly beneath; leaf-stalk slender, channelled and hairy, about i cm. long. The flowers, appearing from May to July, are i to cm. across, in several 2- to 4-flowered umbels, on slender hairy pedicels 2 to 5 cm. long; the calyx-tube is obconic, hairy, as are the blunt lobes; petals obovate, rounded at the apex; stamens and pistil smooth. The fruit, ripening in August, is globose, 8 to 12 mm. in diameter, bright red, flesh thin and very bitter, the stone ovoid. The wood is brittle, soft, close-grained, pinkish-brown; its specific gravity is about of furniture. The young plants are used by nurserymen as stock upon which to graft culti-i vated varieties of cherries. It is said to have been planted as a shade-tree in some of the towns of the Fig. 461. — Woolly-leaf Cherry. It is used in the manufacture 18. MAHALEB—Pnmus Mahaleb Linnaeus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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