B46 



REDSTEM CEANOTHUS 



Ceano'thus sangui'neus 





Petals 5, long-clawed, hooded, with 5 

 protruding stamens opposite them 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 5, whitish, 

 bent inward to meet at tips, united 

 below into a cuplike disk (calyx disk) 

 to which the base of the seed-producing 

 organ (ovary) and the stamens and 

 petals are attached 



Flowers small, white, numerous, in 

 clusters (panicles) up to 4 in. long, 

 growing from side buds on old wood, on 

 usually leafless stalks which are hairy at 

 first but become hairless (glabrate) with 



Leaves alternate, 3-ribbed from base, 

 large (up to 3 in. long and 2 in. wide), 

 thin, nearly hairless, green above, paler 

 below, oval, egg-shaped, or elliptic, 

 rounded at both ends or sometimes 

 somewhat heart-shaped at base, saw- 

 toothed around edges 



Twigs greenish, long-hairy when 

 young, becoming red or purplish and 

 glabrate in age 



Seed po3 (capsule) up to Ktin. across, 

 3-celled, each cell bearing one hard 

 "seed" (nutlet), 3-lobed, the lobes 

 smooth and without crest or horns 



