INDIAN CHERRY; YELLOW BUCKTHORN (Rhamnus Caro 

 liniana, Walt.). 20 to 35 feet. tSlender, spreading tree, or 

 tall shrub, with thornless, angular twigs, reddish, becoming 

 gray. Bark gray, blotched with black, slightly furrowed. 

 Wood hard, close-grained, brittle, light brown. Leaves alter- 

 nate, elliptical, acute, faintly serrate, 2 to 5 inches long, yellow- 

 green, with paler lining, and yellow veins. Petioles short. 

 Flowers small, on axillary cymes, pubescent, after leaves. 

 Fruit berry-like, 2- to 4-celled drupe, red as it ripens, becoming 

 black, thin-fleshed, sweet, dry. with 2 to 4 bony nutlets. 

 Dist.: Limestone hills and bottom lands, Long Island to 

 Florida; west to Nebraska and Texas. Sometimes planted 

 as an ornamental tree, for the brightness of its cherry-like 

 fruits. 



Illustration from "Hough's Handbook of Trees" 



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