Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

with axillary end buds, hairy.

deciduous;

petiole (12–)20–45 mm, glabrous, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–5;

blade broadly ovate to suborbiculate, (3–)5–9 × (2–)4–8 cm, base usually obtuse to rounded, sometimes truncate or subcordate, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface with tufts of hairs in vein axils, adaxial glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 4–7 mm, hairy, eglandular;

blade elliptic to obovate, 1.5–4 × 1–2.2 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins crenulate-serrulate, teeth blunt, often glandular, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface hairy (especially along midribs and veins), adaxial glabrate.

solitary flowers.

usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.

1–3 mm, hairy.

0.5–5(–8) mm, usually glabrous, rarely hairy.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium tubular-campanulate, 4–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy externally;

sepals reflexed, oblong-ovate, 4–6 mm, margins remotely glandular-toothed, surfaces sparsely hairy;

petals white (pink in bud), broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 8–12 mm;

ovaries hairy.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium cupulate, 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals spreading, oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, surfaces glabrous or adaxially hairy at bases;

petals white, elliptic, 4–8 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

yellow to orange, often tinged with red, ellipsoid to globose, laterally compressed, 25–60 mm, velutinous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid to subglobose, strongly flattened, not pitted.

bluish black, globose, 10–15 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones subglobose, ± flattened.

= 16.

= 32.