Pyurs lancifolia
Read about Pyurs lancifolia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pyurs lancifolia, Bailey (Malus lancifolia, Rehd.). Fig. 3296. Small tree, to 25 ft., with spreading spiny branches, the branchlets slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous: lvs. ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1 1/2-3 in. long, at the apex acute or short-acuminate, at the base rounded or broad-cuneate, either finely or coarsely serrate and frequently doubly serrate with the short teeth pointing forward, those on vigorous shoots ovate or oblong-ovate and often slightly lobed: fls. 3-6, in umbel-like racemes, white or rose, something over 1 in. across, on slender glabrous pedicels 1 in. or more long; calyx-tube obconic and on the outside glabrous, the lobes or sepals oblong-lanceolate and exceeding the tube and villous-tomentose within but glabrous without; petals oval, long-clawed; styles 5, densely villous below the middle: fr. subglobose, about 1 in. diam., on slender drooping pedicels, green and waxy. Pa. and Va. to Mo. S.T.S. 2:158 (a sprig of which is reduced in Fig. 3296).—Distinguished from P. coronaria (P. anguslifolia) by the shape of the lvs., which are acuminate and less coriaceous, by the narrower and longer calyx-lobes, styles villous to middle, and by the different fr.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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