Monographs Details:
Authority:
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
Family:
Ericaceae
Ericaceae
Description:
Species Description - A straggling branching shrub, 6-15 dm. tall, with sparingly pubescent twigs and young foliage. Leaves thin, the blades oblong, elliptic or oblanceolate, usually rhomboidal, 4-10 cm. long, usually short-acuminate; apiculate, ciliate, deep green above, paler beneath, pubescent on the nerves on both sides, obtuse or rounded at the base, short-petioled; flowers few, in lateral somewhat drooping racemes; calyx with numerous golden glands, about 3 mm. broad, its 5 segments very low, obtuse, several times shorter than the tube; corolla globose-campanulate, greenish-white or tawny red, about 4-5 mm. long, its segments triangular, acutish, recurved, revolute; filaments dilated, pubescent, incurved at the apex, longer than the anthers which have short tubes at the apex; drupe globose, 10-12 mm. in diameter, black, shining, sweet.
Species Description - A straggling branching shrub, 6-15 dm. tall, with sparingly pubescent twigs and young foliage. Leaves thin, the blades oblong, elliptic or oblanceolate, usually rhomboidal, 4-10 cm. long, usually short-acuminate; apiculate, ciliate, deep green above, paler beneath, pubescent on the nerves on both sides, obtuse or rounded at the base, short-petioled; flowers few, in lateral somewhat drooping racemes; calyx with numerous golden glands, about 3 mm. broad, its 5 segments very low, obtuse, several times shorter than the tube; corolla globose-campanulate, greenish-white or tawny red, about 4-5 mm. long, its segments triangular, acutish, recurved, revolute; filaments dilated, pubescent, incurved at the apex, longer than the anthers which have short tubes at the apex; drupe globose, 10-12 mm. in diameter, black, shining, sweet.
Distribution:
North Carolina United States of America North America| Georgia United States of America North America|
North Carolina United States of America North America| Georgia United States of America North America|