Plate 65

MACLURA POMIFERA (Rafinesque). Schneider. Osage Orange. (× 1/2.)


MAGNOLIÀCEAE. The Magnolia Family.

Trees or shrubs with alternate and petioled leaves; flowers large, terminal and solitary with numerous stamens and pistils.

Buds silky white pubescent; leaves entire; fruit fleshy, dehiscent[1 Magnolia.]
Buds glabrous; leaves lobed; fruit a cone of dry carpels, indehiscent[2 Liriodendron.]

1. MAGNÒLIA. The Magnolias.