Flora of North America species comparison

clustered, branches occasionally arching to the ground and rooting at nodes;

bark yellow to red, not corky, loosely verrucose;

branchlets bright red, reddish brown, maroon, or green, occasionally green in winter and maroon in summer, appressed-hairy when young;

lenticels protruding on 2d year branches, area surrounding them not suffused with purple on older branches;

pith white.

clustered;

bark maroon to reddish brown, not corky, loosely verrucose;

branchlets reddish brown to yellow to maroon, appressed-hairy when young;

lenticels protruding on 2d year branches;

pith white.

petiole 5–38 mm;

blade lanceolate, elliptic, or ovate, 3.5–20 × 1.5–12 cm, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface white, hairs appressed except near secondary vein axils, tufts of erect hairs present in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface green, hairs appressed, sparse;

secondary veins 5–7 per side, most arising from proximal 1/2, tertiary veins not prominent.

petiole 5–38 mm;

blade elliptic to narrowly ovate, 4–17 × 1.5–12 cm, base attenuate, apex acuminate, abaxial surface white, hairs erect and appressed, tufts of erect hairs present in axils of secondary veins, adaxial surface green, hairs erect;

secondary veins 3–5 per side, most arising from proximal 1/2.

flat-topped, 3–6 cm diam., peduncle 20–40 mm;

branches and pedicels green to yellow-green, turning maroon in fruit.

flat-topped, 3–6 cm diam., peduncle 20–40 mm;

branches and pedicels green, turning maroon in fruit.

hypanthium densely appressed-hairy;

sepals 0.2–0.6 mm;

petals white to cream, 2.5–4 mm.

hypanthium densely appressed-hairy;

sepals 0.2–0.6 mm;

petals white, 2.5–4 mm.

white, globose or subglobose, 6–10 mm diam.;

stone subglobose, laterally compressed, 4–6 × 4–6 × 1.5–3 mm, furrowed laterally, apex rounded.

purple-black, globose or subglobose, 6–10 mm diam.;

stone globose, 4–6 mm diam., smooth or slightly grooved, apex rounded.

= 22.

= 22.