. 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. Saffron Plum 777 Leaves wedge-shaped, mostly i to 3 cm. long. Leaves not wedge-shaped, mostly 5 to ip cm. long. Pubescence silky, shining, whitish, becoming tawny or brown. 5. B. rigida. 6. B. lanuginosa. 7. B. tenax. I. SAFFRON PLUM—BumeUa angustifolia Nuttall Bumelia Eggersii Pierre A small evergreen tree or shrub which grows along the coast of peninsular Florida and the Keys, and on the Bahama islands, occurring on roc
. 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. Saffron Plum 777 Leaves wedge-shaped, mostly i to 3 cm. long. Leaves not wedge-shaped, mostly 5 to ip cm. long. Pubescence silky, shining, whitish, becoming tawny or brown. 5. B. rigida. 6. B. lanuginosa. 7. B. tenax. I. SAFFRON PLUM—BumeUa angustifolia Nuttall Bumelia Eggersii Pierre A small evergreen tree or shrub which grows along the coast of peninsular Florida and the Keys, and on the Bahama islands, occurring on rocky shores and borders of marshes, and attaining a height of 6 meters, with a trunk di- ameter up to 2 dm. It is also called Ant's wood and Downward plum. The trunk is short, erect or ascend- ing, its branches spreading or drooping. The bark is 8 to 12 mm. thick, deeply fissured into angular plates of a red- dish gray color. The twigs are slender, slightly hairy at first, soon becoming smooth, reddish brown or gray, with spinescent branchlets. The leaves are persistent for about two years, leathery, varying from oblanceolate-spatulate to obovate, rounded at the apex, gradually narrowed to the nearly sessile base, en- tire and revolute on the margin, dull green on both sides. The flowers ap-. FlG. 707. — Saffron Plum. pear in autumn or early winter in crowded fascicles, on short pedicels; their calyx is smooth, deeply lobed into blunt-pointed segments 2 mm. long; corolla- lobes oval, the appendages ovate to lanceolate and taper-pointed; staminodes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, and toothed; stamens longer than the corolla; ovary ovoi9, slightly hairy at the base; style elongated. The fruit, ripening in the spring, is oblong, to 2 cm. long and black, pendent on a slender stem, usually solitary; its flesh is thick, sweet and edible. The wood is hard, weak, dense, light brown and satiny; its specific gravity is about The shrub of southern Texas and adjacent Mex
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