Rhamnus
species #1
Erect
or climbing trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, often spiny, of about 50 genera and
600 species of wide distribution. Lvs.
mostly alternate, simple, with minute deciduous stipules: fls. small, regular,
bisexual or rarely unisexual, usually borne in cymes; calyx 4-5 lobed; petals
4-5 or 0; stamens 4-5, opposite petals and inserted with them at or below
margins of fleshy disk which lines the calyx tube, the filaments free, slender;
ovary superior or inferior, free or partially immersed in disk, 2-4 celled, with
1-ovule or basal in each cell, stigma 2-4-lobed; fr. a drupe or caps.
(Bailey 644).
Upper
Newport Bay species within the family:
Ceanothus hybrid 'Dark Star' #
Rhamnus
species #2