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 Movmtains; it is known as 

 Padus serotina neomontana (Sudworth) Small. 



6. CUTHBERT'S CHERRY — Padus Outhbertii SmaU 

 Prunus Cuthberiii 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 leathery, obovate, 

 varying 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 hairy; the 

 pedicels are club-shaped, 3 to 5 

 mm. long, becoming twice as 



Fig. 468.— Cuthbert's Cheny. 



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 slightly 

 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 slightly 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 



