Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs: A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent CanadaAuthoritative, easily accessible guide omits lengthy technical descriptions in favor of easy-to-use keys covering such characteristics as leaves, twigs, bark, buds, seeds, stems, fruit or fruit stalks, and other identifying traits. Over 300 pen-and-ink drawings by Maud H. Purdy, noted botanical illustrator. "I recommend this book most highly." — Farida A. Wiley, American Museum of Natural History. |
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acorns alternate Amer aromatic axils bark base berries Black bracts Brooklyn Botanic Garden brown brts bud scales buds small bundle scars Calluna catkins ciliate clusters common commonly cult compound Crataegus dark deciduous diam diaphragmed drupe elliptic entire evergreen FAMILY Flowering fragrant glabrous glaucous Golden-larch gray green Ifts Japanese Large tree leaf lenticels Lfts lobed long-pointed milky native natzd nearly nodes obovate odor opposite ovate pairs persistent petioles phyllotaxy pink pinnate pistillate pith prickles pubescent pubescent beneath racemes rarely resin scale-like scales exposed scales showing seeds serrate serrulate sharp-pointed shining short growths shrub shrub or small simple slender small tree smooth sometimes cult stalked stem superposed teeth tendrils terminal bud lacking terminal bud present thorns tomentose toothed true terminal bud trunk usually valvate veins Viburnum whorls winter woody plants yellow