Cercocarpus ledifolius

  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Common Name: curl-leaf mountain mahogany
  • Symbol: CELE3
  • Description: Perennial shrub or small tree, 2-8 m branches spreading, stiff; twigs reddish, finely pubescent. Bark reddish brown, furrowed, thick. Leaves alternate, simple, oblong or narrowly elliptic to nearly linear, 1-4 cm long, thick, leathery, dark green and glabrous above, paler and white tomentose beneath, the midvein thick, prominent, margins entire, rolled under; Flowers solitary or arranged in clusters of 2-3 in leaf axils.

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