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Aronia melanocarpa, Spach (Sorbus melanocarpa, Heynh. Pyrus nigra, Sarg. A. nigra, Kochne. Pyrus arbutifolia var. nigra, Willd.). Black Chokeberry. Low shrub, rarely to 6 ft.: Lvs. oval to obovate, abruptly acuminate or obtuse, pale green and glabrous or nearly so beneath: calyx and pedicels glabrous or nearly so: fr. globose, about ⅓ in. across, shining black. Nova Scotia to Ont., south to Fla. and Mich. April-June. B.B. 2:237. Var. grandifolia, Schneid. (Pyrus grandifolia, Lindl.). A taller, more vigorous shrub with larger, obovate or broadly obovate lustrous Lvs. and larger fls. in larger corymbs. B.R. 14:1154. Var. elata, Hehd. Fig. 382. Similar to the preceding, but Lvs. narrower, generally oblong-obovate, acute. Var. subpubescens, Schneid. Lvs. pubescent beneath when young.
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