Alabama Cherry 



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A form with very large, coarsely-toothed, leathery leaves, whitish beneath, stout 

 diverging racemes with few flowers, their calyx-lobes and filaments hairy, is con- 

 fined to the higher summits of the southern Alleghany Mountains; it is known as 

 Padus serotina neomoniana (Sudworth) Small. 



6. CUTHBERT'S CHERRY - Padus Cuthbertii Small 



Primus Cuthbertii Small 



Cuthbert's cherry is known only from Georgia, where it occurs in rich sandy 

 woods, attaining a maximum height of only about 6 meters, with a trunk diame- 

 ter of 1.5 dm., and is often only a shrub. 



The twigs are slender, woolly, becoming dark gray to red-brown. The leaves 

 are thick and leather}^, obovate, 

 varjqng to oval or fiddle-shaped, 

 4 to 9 cm. long, blunt or notched 

 at the apex, wedge-shaped with 

 two small glands at the base, 

 margined by short teeth, dull, 

 dark green and smooth above, 

 pale or somewhat glaucous, con- 

 spicuously hairy on the midrib, 

 less so on the lateral veins, be- 

 neath; the leaf -stalk is 5 to 10 

 mm. long and densely hairy. 

 The flowers, appearing in May, 

 are about 7 mm. across, in ra- 

 cemes 5 to 8 cm. long, the axis 

 and pedicels densely hairj^; the 

 pedicels are club-shaped, 3 to 5 



nmi. 



long. 



becoming; twice as 



Fig. 468. Cuthbert's Chern'. 



long in fruit; the calyx-tube is broadly obconic, shorter than the triangular lobes, 

 which are broader than long, and obtuse; petals crisp, nearly orbicular. The 

 fruit, ripening in July, is globose, smooth and red, subtended by the persistent 

 calyx and filaments; stone globose, shghtly depressed, taper-pointed, and shghtly 

 ridged on both edges. 



7. ALABAMA CHERRY Padus alabamensis (C. Mohr) SmaU 



Prunus alabamensis C. Mohr 



This cherry is known only from the mountainous districts of Alabama and 

 Georgia, where it is a spreading tree with shghtly drooping branches, attaining a 

 maximum height of 10 meters, with a trunk diameter of 5 dm. 



The bark is rather thick, much fissured, dark brown, splitting into thin small 



