Nemopanthus mucronatus (L.) Trel.

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'Nemopanthus mucronatus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/nemopanthus/nemopanthus-mucronatus/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

Genus

Nemopanthus

Synonyms

Vaccinium mucronatum L.
N. canadensis (Michx.) DC.
Ilex canadensis Michx., not West.

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

alternate: Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
apex: (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
berry: Fleshy indehiscent fruit with seed(s) immersed in pulp.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose: globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
perfect: (botanical) All parts present and functional. Usually referring to both androecium and gynoecium of a flower.
unisexual: Having only male or female organs in a flower.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Nemopanthus mucronatus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/nemopanthus/nemopanthus-mucronatus/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

A deciduous shrub 3 to 10 ft high, with glabrous young wood. Leaves alternate, oval, oblong or ovate, thin, not (or very slightly) toothed, tapered more abruptly towards the base than the apex, quite glabrous, 1 to 21⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄8 in. wide; stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. Flowers often unisexual, small, of no beauty; produced from the leaf-axils usually singly, occasionally a few together on a thread-like stalk 1⁄2 to 1 in. long. Fruit a globose berry, 1⁄4 to 1⁄3 in. wide, pale crimson, containing four or five hard bony nutlets.

Native of eastern N. America; introduced in 1802. Although introduced so long ago, this shrub never appears to have obtained much recognition in this country. Unless it bears its fruits freely it is of no garden value, and our summer sun is probably not hot enough to develop its best qualities in that respect. I have never seen it in Britain bearing fruit anything like so freely as it does in N. America.

Some plants have flowers of both sexes as well as perfect flowers, others have those of one sex only.