| Leaves |
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oval, 4-8 cm. in length |
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rounded or heart-shaped at the base with fine
sharp-toothed |
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surface is dark green, hairless and wrinkled above,
light green and shiny
beneath |
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main veins beneath are brown and usually have hairs |
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there are 7-8 veins on each leaf and cross veins do not join |
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| Fruit |
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small, winged nutlets in oval, woody ‘cones’ |
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1-2 cm in length |
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nutlets mature in the fall but the ‘cones’ often persist for a year or more |
|
| Bark |
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gray or reddish-gray |
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not so conspicuously marked with lenticels as the Speckled Alder |
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becomes scaly with age |
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| General |
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commonly grow up to 3 m in height |
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found along roadsides, stream banks, pond fringes, in wet
thickets and swamps, onrocky slopes and in other dry areas |
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occur throughout Newfoundland and Labrador |
