. Concord area trees and shrubs. Botany; Trees; Shrubs. COMMON BUCKTHORN MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Fruit if berry-like, not 1-seeded. Opposing leaf scars not connected by LINES. COMMON BUCKTHORN Rhamnus cathartics Leaves essentially but not quite opposite; main veins reaching strongly forward. "Berries" black, 3-4 seeded, nauseous and purgative. Often a small tree. Naturalized in thickets and roadsides. Common. WINGED EUONYMUS Euonymus alatus Twigs and branchlets usually with corky wings. Leafstalks very short (1 -3 mm. long). Fruit orange and red on long stalks, somewhat poisonous. Roa
. Concord area trees and shrubs. Botany; Trees; Shrubs. COMMON BUCKTHORN MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: Fruit if berry-like, not 1-seeded. Opposing leaf scars not connected by LINES. COMMON BUCKTHORN Rhamnus cathartics Leaves essentially but not quite opposite; main veins reaching strongly forward. "Berries" black, 3-4 seeded, nauseous and purgative. Often a small tree. Naturalized in thickets and roadsides. Common. WINGED EUONYMUS Euonymus alatus Twigs and branchlets usually with corky wings. Leafstalks very short (1 -3 mm. long). Fruit orange and red on long stalks, somewhat poisonous. Roadsides, woods. An occasional escape. EUROPEAN EUONYMUS Euonymus europaeus Leafstalks 6-12 mm. long. Leaves hairless. Fruit fleshy, pink to red, 4-lobed, on a long stalk, somewhat poisonous. Flowers usually in clusters of 3-5. Sometimes a small tree. Roadsides, waste places. An occasional escape. WEEPING FORSYTHIA Forsythia suspensa Usually also with some 3-lobed and 3-compound leaves. Fruit elongate capsules. Rare escape. See p. 36. PURPLE-OSIER WILLOW Salixpurpurea Usually with alternate leaves at least on sprout growth. Buds with single scale. Occasional escape. See p. 64. (PRINTS FULL SIZE). 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 Angelo, Ray, 1948-; Angelo, Ray, 1948-. Cambridge, Mass. : Concord Field Station, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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