Plants Described in 1849 - Diospyros Texana, Cupressus Goveniana, Physalis Coztomatl, Antirrhinum Cornutum (Paperback)

Chapters: Diospyros Texana, Cupressus Goveniana, Physalis Coztomatl, Antirrhinum Cornutum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Diospyros texana is a species of persimmon that is native to central and west Texas and southwest Oklahoma in the United States, and eastern Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico. Common names include Texas Persimmon, Mexican Persimmon and the more ambiguous "black persimmon." It is known in Spanish as Chapote, Chapote Manzano, or Chapote Prieto, all of which are derived from the Nahuatl word tzapotl. That word also refers to several other fruit-bearing trees. D. texana is a multi-trunked small tree or large shrub with a lifespan of 30 to 50 years. It usually grows to 3 m (9.8 ft) in height, but can reach 12 m (39 ft) on good sites. The bark is smooth, light reddish gray, and peels away from mature trees to reveal shades of pink, white, and gray on the trunk. The sclerophyllus leaves are obovate, dark green, 25 cm (0.792.0 in) long and 13 cm (0.391.2 in) wide. Apexes are obtuse to emarginate. Upper surfaces are glossy while lower surfaces are covered in fine hairs and lack basilaminar glands. Leaves are attached to 0.10.5 cm (0.0390.20 in) petioles. Trees are deciduous in the north of their range and become evergreen further south. D. texana is dioecious (separate male and female trees) and produces flowers starting in March or April. The flowers are white, urn-shaped, and 0.81.6 cm (0.310.63 in) wide. They have five sepals, five petals, 16 stamens, and four styles. Flowers are solitary or form on cymes of two to three. The fruit of D. texana are black, subglobose berries with a diameter of 1.52.5 cm (0.590.98 in) that that ripen in August. Berries contain three to eight light red, triangu...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2515982