Trees and shrubs of Central Park . k of McGowans PassTavern, you will find this tree. At first you mightmistake it for a white mulberry, but it is a very dif-ferent kind of tree. It belongs to the Bixacecs, andgets its name from a Dutch explorer in China, YobrantsIdes. It stands, as you will see, by referring to themap, on a little island of Walk that has come toanchor just below the slope back of McGowans. Thislittle island runs north and south. From the south-erly end, walking north, you pass a couple of goodspecimens of Magnolia glauca, easily picked out bythe white undersides of their leav
Trees and shrubs of Central Park . k of McGowans PassTavern, you will find this tree. At first you mightmistake it for a white mulberry, but it is a very dif-ferent kind of tree. It belongs to the Bixacecs, andgets its name from a Dutch explorer in China, YobrantsIdes. It stands, as you will see, by referring to themap, on a little island of Walk that has come toanchor just below the slope back of McGowans. Thislittle island runs north and south. From the south-erly end, walking north, you pass a couple of goodspecimens of Magnolia glauca, easily picked out bythe white undersides of their leaves, then comes agood Kentucky coffee tree, with very rough bark andlarge doubly compound leaves. Then another Mag-nolia glauca, and then the Idesia. You can tell it atonce by its alternate, simple, heart-shaped, five-veinedleaves, which are fairly large and at a distance some-what resemble the leaves of the mulberry. A distin-guishing feature of the leaves is the very long redpetiole (leaf stalk). On this petiole, near the base of. .^.^^5Wp,;;^i>tSS?Sga5i«S?fr Idesia (Idisia polycar[a)Map 15. No. 21. 329 the leaf, you will find glands (like the glands onthe leaf-stems of the prunus). Glands are also pres-ent on the twigs of the tree. This interesting im-portation from Japan and China blooms in drooping,fragrant, terminal and axillary panicles of greenish-yellow flowers. The flowers are rather are petalless, but have five woolly sepals. Thesepals are divisions of the calyx. These flowers changeinto small orange-yellow many-seeded berries aboutthe size of an ordinary pea. Fhellodendron Amurense. (Chinese Cork Tree. ) In his Section there grows the best specimenof the Chinese cork tree in the Park. You can findit very easily by entering the Park at the East OneHundred and Sixth St^reet Gate and going west untilyou pass the third branching of the Walk. Just be-yond this third offshoot of Walk (which leads in tothe Green Houses), down in the open space w
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