| Leaves |
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oval, 4 - 8 cm long |
| |
rounded or heart-shaped at the base, and finely
sharp-toothed |
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they are dark green, hairless and wrinkled above,
whitened and dull, and often somewhat hairy beneath |
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the main veins beneath are brown and hairy |
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there are 10 or more pair of veins to each leaf and
cross veins join to form a ladder-like pattern |
|
| Fruit |
| |
small wingless nutlets in oval, woody ‘cones’,
1 - 2 cm long |
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nutlets mature in the fall but the ‘cones’ often persist
for a year or more |
|
| Bark |
| |
smooth, reddish-brown with conspicuous horizontal orange
lenticels |
|
| General |
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grow to 3.5 m or more in height |
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found in wet places - swamps, stream margins and other
low-lying areas |
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it is absent from the Avalon Peninsula and the Great
Northern Peninsula |
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in Labrador it occurs mostly in the forested areas
ranging as far north as 55 degrees latitude |
