. 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. 5. HOG PLUM — Pnmus injacunda Small Like its relatives, this is also called Sloe. It is a shrub or small, straggling, somewhat spiny tree of the granite hills of Georgia and Alabama, and is particu- larly abundant at the base of Stone Mountain, where it was first discovered. Its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is thin, closely fissured, dull dark- gray to nearly black; the twigs are vel
. 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. 5. HOG PLUM — Pnmus injacunda Small Like its relatives, this is also called Sloe. It is a shrub or small, straggling, somewhat spiny tree of the granite hills of Georgia and Alabama, and is particu- larly abundant at the base of Stone Mountain, where it was first discovered. Its maximum height is 8 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The bark is thin, closely fissured, dull dark- gray to nearly black; the twigs are velvety, soon becoming reddish or purplish, and finally dull gray. The leaves are thick and firm, ovate to obovate, 3 to 6 cm. long, sharp or taper-pointed, tapering or rounded at the base, finely toothed with sharp, thin-pointed teeth, yellowish green, wrinkled and slightly hairy above, densely vel- vety, with the yellow midrib very prominent, the lateral veins less so, beneath; leaf-stalk stout, to I cm. long, and hairy. The flowers, open- ing in March or April, are in nearly stalkless umbels of 4 or 5, on slender, hairy pedicels about j.^^ ^^g _ ^^ p,^^^ cm. long; the calyx-tube is obconic and hairy, its lobes triargular, erect, entire, ciliate, and sharply pointed; the clawed. 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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