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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Cercocarpus betuloides' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
An erect shrub or small tree to about 20 ft high with a smooth grey bark; young shoots more or less glabrous. Leaves obovate to ovate or broadly elliptic, about 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, cuneate at the base, margins toothed in the upper half; dark green and glabrous above, paler and somewhat downy beneath; leaf-stalks 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers in clusters of two to three on short pedicels; flower-tube silky-hairy at first, later more or less glabrous. Fruits terminated by a plumelike style 11⁄2 to 41⁄4 in. long.
Native of western N. America from S.W. Oregon to Lower California. It is a common and variable species in which three varieties are recognised, differing from the type chiefly in their larger and differently shaped leaves. Of these the following is the most distinct:
As remarked, this species is near to C. montanus Raf. By some authorities it is included in it, either without distinction or as C. montanus var. glaber (Wats.) F. L. Martin.
Synonyms
C. traskiae Eastw