Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent.

with terminal end buds, glabrous.

deciduous; ± sessile;

blade narrowly elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 1–3 × 0.2–0.6 cm, base long-attenuate, margins usually serrulate, sometimes obscurely, teeth blunt, inconspicuously glandular, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent.

deciduous;

petiole 1–6 mm, hairy on adaxial surface, eglandular;

blade narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–9 × 0.9–2.5 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface glabrous or slightly hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles.

(1–)4–12 mm, glabrous.

6–15 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 3–4 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent externally;

sepals spreading, triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins sparsely glandular-toothed, ciliate, surfaces glabrate;

petals usually dark pink, sometimes nearly white, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, (5–)8–11 mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming at leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulent externally;

sepals spreading to reflexed, ovate, 2.5–5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, ± ciliate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulent;

petals 25+, white or pink, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 8–11 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

greenish yellow to red-orange, globose to asymmetrically obovoid, compressed, 10–18 mm, base cuneate-stipitate, apex mucronate, densely puberulent;

hypanthium persistent;

mesocarps leathery to dry (often splitting);

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened.

reddish, subglobose, 10–15 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose, not flattened.