HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY 
BLACK HAW. STAG BUSH 
Vibiirnum prunifoliun. 
Often a shrub, sometimes a small bushy tree with short crooked 
trunk and stout spreading branches. Found in the undergrowth of 
the forest. Ranges from Connecticut to Georgia westward to Kan- 
sas and Indian Territory. - 
BLark.—Reddish brown, scaly. Branchlets at first red, then green, 
finally dark brown tinged with red. 
1Vood.— Brown tinged with red; heavy, hard, close-grained. Sp. 
gr., 0.8332; weight of cu. ft., 51.92 lbs. 
Venter Buds.—Coated with rusty tomentum. Flower-buds ovate, 
half an inch long, much larger than the axillary buds. Scales grow 
with the growing shoot and sometimes develop into leaf-like bodies. 
Leaves.—Opposite, simple, oval, ovate or orbicular, two to three 
inches long, wedge-shaped or rounded at base, serrate, acute. 
Feather - veined, midrib and primary veins prominent beneath. 
They come out of the bud involute, shining, green, tinged with red, 
sometimes smooth, or clothed with rusty tomentum ; when full grown 
dark green and smooth above, pale, smooth or tomentose beneath. 
In autumn the leaves vary from scarlet to a vinous red. Petioles 
short, grooved, red, often tomentose, sometimes winged. 
Frlowers.—May. Perfect, cream-white, borne in 
flat-topped cymes three to four inches in diameter. 
The pedicels are bibracteolate; bracis are awl- 
shaped, short, reddish, caducous. 
Calyx.—Urn-shaped, five-toothed, persistent. 
Corolla.—White, five-lobed; lobes rounded, im- 
bricate in bud. 
Single Flower of 
Black Haw, Vi- Stamens.—Five, exserted, inserted on the base of 
burnum pruni- the corolla, alternate with the lobes ; filaments slen- 
folium. der; anthers pale yellow, oblong, introrse, versatile, 
two-celled ; cells opening longitudinally. 
Pistil.—Ovary inferior, one-celled ; style thick, pale green ; stigma 
flat; ovules one in each cell. 
Fruit.—Drupe, oval, half an inch long, dark blue, with glaucous 
bloom. Ripens in October, borne in few-fruited clusters, hangs 
until winter, becomes edible after being touched by the frost. Stone 
flat and eve2, broadly oval. 
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