Handbook of Trees of the !N"ortherx States and Canada. 240 



The Green Haw is a sturdy representative 

 of the genus, attaining the heiglit of from 30-35 

 ft. with broad or rounded intricately branched 

 top and clear trunk 12 or 18 in. in diameter. 

 This is often ridged and fluted and is vested in 

 a pale graj- or brownish bark, which exfoliatei 

 in small friable scales. It inhabits the banks 

 of streams, moist low-lands and lake-shores 

 and is particularly abundant and well devel- 

 oped along the bayous of the Mississippi river 

 in the vicinity of St. Louis and southward. In 

 these localities it is found in company with 

 the Pecan, King-nut Hickory, Water and 

 Honey Locusts, Fovestiera, Pin and Shingle 

 Oaks, Cottonwood, etc., and among them its 

 full rounded top is one of the most attractive 

 objects particularly when in flower or bearing 

 its ripe fruit. 



Leaves mostly elliptic to lance-ovate or obovato, 

 1^/^-3 in. long, cuneate or abruptl.v contracted and 

 entire at base, mostly acute or bluntly pointed at 

 apex, irregularly serrate or serrate-dentate, some 

 on vigorous shoots with shallow lobes, glabrous 

 or with pale hairs in the axils beneath : petioles 

 slender 1-1 Vj in. long. Floirers in May, about 

 % in. across, in many-rtowered compound corymbs, 

 with long slender glat>rous pedicels ; calyx glab- 

 rous, with narrow entire lobes ; stamens 20, an- 

 thers pale yellow ; styles usually 5 with pale hairs 

 at base. Fruit subglobose or somewhat obovoid, 

 bright scarlet or orange, about i,4 in. long or less, 

 in drooping clusters witli long slender stems ; 

 flesh thin, nutlets usually .j, slightly ribbed on 

 back. 



