TREES AND SHRUBS 



Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, cordate at base, entire, revolute, deep 

 green above, glaucous beneatli, J-?, in. long, petiole short. 



An evergreen shrub, 3-4 ins. ; Stem creeping, filiform, wiry, puberulous ; 

 Buds scaly. 



Native of Britain. Syns. O. vulgaris and raccinium O.vycoccus. Known 

 also as Marsh AVhortleberry. 



STRAWBERRY TREE, Arbutus Unedo. 



Parks, gardens, lawns. September — November. Unlike most of the 

 Heath family this will grow in a soil containing a little chalk or hme, but 

 it does best in sandy peat. When laden with its waxy blossoms and the 

 Strawberry-like fruits of the previous year, this forms one of our most 

 striking shrubs. Propagated by seeds in well-drained pots of sandy peat in 

 cold frame in March ; it is used as a stock. 



Floxvers cream-white, often flushed with pink, in a drooping terminal 

 panicle, glabrous, lax ; pedicels short, bracts deciduous ; Ca/i/<v inferior, sepals 

 5, small ; Coro/la 5-fid, ovately campanulate, hypogynous ; Stamens 10, 

 hypogynous, filaments short, villous at base, anthers with 2 pores at tip, awned ; 

 Ovary superior, 5-celled, style simple, stigma obtuse, viscid ; fertilised by 

 bees ; F)'uit a berry, globular, granulated, 5-celled, and many-seeded, 

 resembling a strawberry, but ratlier dry, friable and flavoui'less, red, takes about 

 14 months to reach maturity, edible, H in. diam. ; seeds angled, testa coriaceous. 



Leaves alternate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, shortly petiolate, acute, bluntly 

 serrated, glabrous on upper side, 2-3 ins. long ; coriaceous, dark glossy green, 

 petioles glandular ; dying leaves reddish. 



An evergreen shrub, 10-15 ft., or small tree; branchlets clothed w^ith 

 glandular hairs ; Bark rough, twisted, scaly, tinged with red ; 2\dgs red. 



Indigenous in S.W. Ireland, there a tree of 40 ft. Generic name possibly 



from li. arbor, a tree. Specific name a contraction of unum edo ; u/ium, 



one, edo, I eat, i.e. one is sufficient at a time. 



I^eaves sometimes attacked by Arbutus Purple Spot (Sepforia U/iedonis). 



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