Flora of North America species comparison

ca. 1, erect;

bark gray-brown; short shoots absent; unarmed; hairy.

bark ± smooth.

persistent, cauline, simple;

stipules deciduous or ± persistent, free, linear, small, margins entire;

petiole present;

blade ± elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2–40 cm, leathery, margins flat, dentate, venation pinnate (craspedodromous), abaxial surface tomentose, adaxial glabrous [hairy].

petiole 6–10 mm;

blade margins dentate in distal 1/2, lateral veins 15–25 per side, apex acute.

terminal, 20–40-flowered, panicles, usually ± tomentose;

bracts present at proximal nodes, leafy;

bracteoles present.

branches stiff, densely rufous-tomentose, with 1–3 barely reduced leaflike bracts, flowers ± sessile;

bracteoles deciduous, narrowly triangular, margins entire, rufous-tomentose.

present, short, or nearly absent.

perianth and androecium epigynous, 15–20 mm diam.;

hypanthium urceolate, 3–4 mm, usually tomentose;

sepals 5, suberect, triangular;

petals 5, white, obovate to ± oblong;

stamens [10–15]20, shorter than petals;

carpels (2–)5, connate, basally adnate to hypanthium, indumentum not recorded, styles (2–)5, terminal, proximally connate;

ovules 2.

sepals 3 × 3 mm;

petals ± spreading, often notched, 8–10 mm.

pomes, soft apricot yellow [yellow to reddish or blackish], ellipsoid to subglobose, [10–]20–30 mm diam., softly short-hairy;

hypanthium persistent;

sepals usually persistent, covering hypanthial opening or reflexed;

carpel walls thin;

styles not persistent.

flesh sweet.

1–5 per fruit.

3–5, black, ovoid, shiny.

= 17.

= 34.