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Prunus triloba L i n d 1 e y 1857 Flowering Plum 



An erect shrub, 1-3 meters (3-9 ft.) high, with spreading or ascending 

 branches; bark brownish, young shoots reddish, puberulous or glabrous; 

 leaves obovate, cuneate at the base, 3-lobed and abruptly pointed at the 

 apex, sometimes merely obtuse or acute, coarsely and doubly serrate, rough 

 with a few bristly hairs and impressed-veined on the upper surface, 

 prominently veined and with scattered hairs beneath, 3-6 cm. long, 2-4 cm. 

 wide, petiole 1-1.5 cm. long, pubescent along the upper side; flowers soli- 

 tary, appearing before the leaves, 3-4 cm. broad, petals numerous, light 

 pink; pistil hairy, the fruit usually does not set from the filled flowers, 

 from fertile flowers the fruit is small, red and shining when ripe : t r i - 

 1 o b a, three-lobed, in reference to the leaf. 



A very desirable ornamental bush as it is entirely hardy in our climate. 

 It is not quite as showy as the preceding species. 



Native of China. 



Leguminosae Pulse or Pea Family 



Herbs, shrubs, vines, or trees; leaves alternate, mostly compound, with 

 stipules ; flowers perfect, monoecious, dioecious, or polygamous, in spikes, 

 heads, racemes, or panicles, apopetalous, hypogynous, or perigynous and 



