ADELIA ACUMINATA Michaux. Pond Brush. Crooked Brush. (× 1/2.)
BIGNONIÀCEAE. The Trumpet Creeper Family.
Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, with long petioles; flowers in terminal panicles or corymbs; fruit a long round pod which splits into halves; seed many, flat, papery with a tuft of long hairs at each end.
A small genus of widely distributed trees. The species freely hybridize, and have been cultivated and planted so extensively that it is difficult to find typical specimens.