Flora of North America species comparison

with axillary end buds, glabrous.

deciduous;

petiole 5–20 mm, glabrous except for a few hairs on adaxial surface, eglandular;

blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 3–7 × 1.5–3.5 cm, base obtuse, margins singly to doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex obtuse to acute, abaxial surface hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous.

alternate, simple;

stipules deciduous, free;

venation pinnate.

usually solitary flowers, sometimes 2-flowered fascicles.

(4–)10–18 mm, glabrous.

blooming before leaf emergence;

hypanthium campanulate, 2–4 mm, glabrous externally;

sepals reflexed to spreading, oblong-ovate, 2–4 mm, margins glandular-toothed to nearly entire, eciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy at bases;

petals white (reddish pink in cultivars), elliptic to suborbiculate, 7–14 mm;

ovaries glabrous.

perianth and androecium perigynous;

epicalyx bractlets absent;

hypanthium cup-shaped, obconic, campanulate, or tubular;

torus absent;

carpel 1, distinct, free, style terminal, distinct;

ovules 2 (1 abortive), apical, collateral (obturator present).

drupes;

styles deciduous, not elongate.

purple-red to yellow, sometimes glaucous, ovoid, ellipsoid, or globose, 15–30 mm, glabrous;

mesocarps fleshy;

stones ellipsoid to ovoid, ± to strongly flattened.

= 16.