. 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. 510 The Evergreen Cherries are oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leathery, 5 to 12 cm. long, pointed at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire-margined, or rarely with a few sharp teeth, the upper side dark green and shining, paler green and dull on the imder side; the leaf-stalks are S to 8 mm. long. The flower-clusters are shorter than the leaves; the flower- stalks are club-shaped, 2 to 4 mm. long; the flowers open from Feb
. 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. 510 The Evergreen Cherries are oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leathery, 5 to 12 cm. long, pointed at the apex, narrowed at the base, entire-margined, or rarely with a few sharp teeth, the upper side dark green and shining, paler green and dull on the imder side; the leaf-stalks are S to 8 mm. long. The flower-clusters are shorter than the leaves; the flower- stalks are club-shaped, 2 to 4 mm. long; the flowers open from February to April;. Fig. 471. — Wild Orange. the obconic calyx-tube is white, the lobes small, rounded, entire-margined, reflexed; the petals are shorter than the calyx-lobes, erect, boat-shaped, about i mm. long; the stamens are orange-yellow and much longer than the petals. The fruits are oblong or oval, 10 to 13 mm. long, pointed, black and shining, the skin thick,the flesh thin, the pit ovoid, slightly ridged on one side. The tree is much planted in the South for ornament and for hedges, and grows rapidly. The hard and strong wood is brown, with a specific gravity of about • Other common names are Laurel cherry, Carolina cherry. Mock olive. 2. WEST INDIAN CHERRY—Laurocerasus myrtafolia (Linnaeus) Britten Celastrus myrtifolius Linnaeus. Pruntis sphcerocarpa Swartz Laurocerasus sphcerocarpa Rcemer Widely distributed in the West Indies and in South America, this small ever- green tree occurs sparingly in southern Florida, where it grows to a height of about 12 meters, and forms a trunk sometimes 3 or 4 dm. thick. It has thin, nearly smooth reddish brown bark, and slender orange-brown, smooth young twigs which soon turn gray; the buds are small and bluntish. The leaves are leathery, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 5 to 10 cm. long, blunt or blunt-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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