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Trees of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • SIMPLE LEAVES, NO TEETH ON MARGINS FLOWERING DOGWOOD MOUNTAIN STEWARTIA REDBUD FLOWERING DOGWOOD has soft, light green, opposite leaves; the midrib and veins are sunken into the leaf surface. In spring, white specialized leaves (bracts) surround the clustered green flowers. The fruit, in the fall, is clustered, oval, fleshy, and red. The bark on young trees is gray, on old ones gray-brown with shallow furrows separating gray plates about a quarter of an inch long and wide. Flowering dogwood is extremely abundant below 3,000 feet, less so tff^OOO. ALTERNATE-LEAVED DOGWOOD leaves resemble those of the above, but are usually arranged alternately along the stem. The small white flowers grow in upright clusters; the fruit is blue- black, rarely yellow, on reddish stems. The bark is smooth and bright green, on older trees reddish brown with shallow fissures. This is a small tree, not abundant, but found at all altitudes. MOUNTAIN STEWARTIA leaves (and dogwood leaves) have a few small and barely noticeable teeth on the margins. The leaves are similar, but these have shorter stems, are flatter, and have bases that are equal. These are borne in pairs or in threes at the end of short twigs, or alternately at the branch tips. The flower 16
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