Tree very large and vigorous, round-topped, open, hardy, very
productive; branches smooth, becoming rough near the trunk,
ash-gray, with lenticels of medium size and number; branchlets
somewhat slender, short, with long internodes, greenish-red
changing to dull reddish-brown, marked by scarf-skin, dull,
glabrous, with few, inconspicuous, small lenticels; leaf-buds
above medium in size and length, pointed, free; leaf-scars
prominent.
Leaves folded backward, oval or obovate, one and five-eighths
inches wide, three and one-quarter inches long, leathery; upper
surface dark green, sparingly hairy, with a shallow groove on
the midrib; lower surface yellowish-green, pubescent; apex
abruptly pointed or acute, base acute, margin crenate, bearing
small, dark glands; petiole one-half inch long, pubescent, with
a little red, glandless or with one or two small, globose,
yellowish glands.
Blooming season intermediate in time, short; flowers appearing
with the leaves, one and one-eighth inches across, white,
creamy at the apex of the petals in the newly opened flowers;
borne on lateral buds and spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels
one-half inch long, thick, pubescent, greenish; calyx-tube
green, campanulate, pubescent at the base; calyx-lobes broad,
obtuse, pubescent on both surfaces, glandular-ciliate, somewhat
reflexed; petals roundish-ovate, erose; anthers yellow;
filaments about one-quarter inch long; pistil glabrous except
at the base, slightly longer than the stamens; stigma large.
Fruit mid-season; one and five-eighths inches by one and
one-half inches in size, irregular roundish-truncate, halves
unequal; cavity shallow, narrow, abrupt; suture usually
shallow, prominent; apex flattened or depressed; color dull
yellow with greenish streaks, sometimes with pinkish blush
about the cavity, mottled, overspread with thin bloom; dots
numerous, small, inconspicuous; stem thick, three-quarters inch
long, pubescent, adhering well to the fruit; skin thin, tough,
sour, separating readily; flesh greenish-yellow, juicy, firm
but tender, sweet, aromatic; very good; stone nearly free,
seven-eighths inch by five-eighths inch in size, broadly oval,
turgid, slightly contracted at the blunt base, roundish at the
apex, with rough and pitted surfaces; ventral suture broad,
with a distinct but small wing; dorsal suture widely and deeply
grooved.
BURBANK
[Illustration: BURBANK]
_Prunus triflora_
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