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Frangula caroliniana (Walt.) Gray

Carolina buckthorn, Carolina false buckthorn, Indian cherry
Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn Family)

USDA Symbol: FRCA13
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Specimen & Label Data

Rhamnus caroliniana

Carolina Buckthorn

Rhamnaceae

Location: Gunsight Mountain Ranch, Tarpley.
 Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: In moist understory of Quercus, Ulmus, and Cornus.

Description: Erect tree, 4.5 m tall, crown rounded, twigs red-brown, bark thin, tight, irregularly furrowed. Leaves alternate, petioled (to 15 mm), simple, entire, obovate, rounded at base, acute at apex, to 4x8 cm, shiny dark green above, paler beneath, w/8-10 pairs of distinct lateral veins (orange) parallel to margins. Fruit on short peduncled cymes in axils, globose; seed 2-3, stoney.

County: Bandera
 Collector: Harry Cliffe
 Collection Date: Jul 18, 1992
 Specimen number: 475

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
 Herbarium ID: 0683
 Accession Date: Mar 22, 1994
 Accession Number: 49

Annotations: (in fruit)

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