SOUTHERN BLACK HAW
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Viburnum rufidulum Raf.
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| Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| Height: Shrubs, to 10 feet |
| Family: Adoxaceae - Moschatel Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Also Called: | | Wild raisin. | | Trunks: | | Stems erect; branches unarmed; bark dark gray to grayish black, fissures shallow, ridges blocky, flat; wood reddish brown, hard. | | Twigs: | | Brown to grayish brown, rigid, densely rusty-tomentose initially, glabrescent; leaf scars crescent-shaped; buds reddish brown, ovoid, .2 to .3 inch, apex acute, scales densely stellate-pubescent. | | Leaves: | | Deciduous, opposite, simple; petiole .2 to .5 inch, sparsely to densely rusty stellate-pubescent; blade ovate to obovate or broadly elliptic, 1.6 to 3.2 inch long, 1.2 to 2.4 inch wide, base cuneate to rounded, margins finely serrate to serrulate, apex acute to rounded or emarginate, lower surface light green to light yellowish green, densely stellate-pubescent initially, eventually sparsely stellate-pubescent, upper surface dark green, sparsely rusty stellate-pubescent along midrib. | | Flowers: | | Inflorescences terminal on new growth, cymes, rounded to flat-topped, 2.4 to 3.6 inches wide, 50-150-flowered; peduncles 0 to .24 inch, glabrous; pedicels .12 to .2 inch, glabrate. Flower bisexual, radially symmetric; hypanthium green, cylindric, .06 to .08 inch; sepals 5, connate proximally, lobes triangular; petals 5, connate proximally, corolla rotate, lobes white, elliptic, .1 to .14 inch; stamens 5; pistil 1; style 1, ca. 08 inch; stigma 3-4-lobed. | | Fruit: | | September-October; drupes, bluish purple to bluish black, ellipsoid to ovoid, slightly compressed, .5 to .6 inch long, .35 to .43 inch wide, glabrous, glaucous; stone 1, brown, ovate, strongly compressed, .35 to .43 inch long, .24 to .3 inch wide, rough. | | Habitat: | | Floodplain and upland forests and woodlands, rocky hillsides, roadsides. | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas, principally in the southeast quarter | | Origin: | | Native |
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| Southern black haw leaf |  | | 63 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Southern black haw bark |  | | 103 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Southern black haw habit |  | | 191 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Southern black haw inflorescence |  | | 94 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Southern black haw inflorescence |  | | 75 KB | | Wildcat Glades, Newton County, Missouri |
| | Southern black haw flowers |  | | 102 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Southern black haw leaves |  | | 89 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Southern black haw buds |  | | 42 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Southern black haw fruit |  | | 69 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Southern black haw fruit |  | | 60 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
| | Southern black haw bud opening |  | | 44 KB | | Riley County, Kansas |
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