Description Oxydendrum

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raceme of flowers


the bark gray reddish tinge, furrowed , scaly. branchlets @ first light yellow green, later turn reddish brown. wood reddish brown, paler sapwood; heavy, hard, , close-grained, , take high polish. specific gravity 0.7458, density of 46.48 lb/cu ft.


the winter buds axillary, minute, dark red, , partly immersed in bark. inner scales enlarge when spring growth begins. leaves alternate, 4 7 inches long, 1.5 2.5 inches wide, oblong ablanceolate, wedge-shaped @ base, serrate, , acute or acuminate. leaf veins feather-veined, midrib conspicuous. emerge bud revolute, bronze green , shining, , smooth; when full grown, dark green, shining above, , pale , glaucous below. in autumn, turn bright scarlet. petioles long , slender, stipules wanting. heavily laden acid.


in june , july, cream-white flowers borne in terminal panicles of secund racemes 7 8 inches long; rachis , short pedicels downy. calyx five-parted , persistent; lobes valvate in bud. corolla ovoid-cylindric, narrowed @ throat, cream-white, , five-toothed. 10 stamens inserted on corolla; filaments wider anthers; anthers two-celled. pistil ovary superior, ovoid, , five-celled; style columnar; stigma simple; disk ten-toothed, , ovules many.


the fruit capsule, downy, five-valved, five-angled, , tipped persistent style; pedicels curving.








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