| − | Prunus reverchonii, Sarg. (P. pygma, Muns., not P. pygmaea, Willd.). Hog Plum. Shrub, 2-6 ft., with gray bark and chestnut-colored twigs, forming dense thickets and yielding late-ripening fr. (Aug., Sept.): lvs. ovate-lanceolate (sometimes lanceolate), acuminate, usually 3 in. or less long, strongly conduplicate, either rounded or narrowed at base, glandular-serrate, glabrous and green above, pale and somewhat pubescent beneath; petiole bearing 2-4 glands near apex: fls. with the lvs. or preceding them, white, less than 1/2in. broad, on glabrous pedicels; calyx-lobes oblong or ovate- oblong, obtuse, glandular; petals obovate to oblong- obovate, narrowed or somewhat clawed, entire, or erose near apex: fr. globose or nearly so, sometimes nearly 1 in. diam., usually yellow (rarely red) and blushed with orange or crimson and marked with whitish dots, with little or no bloom; stone oblong, the surface smooth or slightly reticulate. Okla., Texas.—No horticultural varieties of this species are recorded; its fr. is sometimes good, although usually poor. Said to be well adapted to limestone soils and to withstand drought. Wight writes that the species is closely related to P. rivularis and may be a form of it. "The apparent differences are its more branching and less slender stems, trough-shaped leaves, later-ripening fruit, and more pointed stone."
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