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Common Name: Perennial Dioecious Native to the Carolinas & Georgia Common Documented growing wild in GA NC SC Look for it in moist nutrient-rich forests, esp on floodplains or lower slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Leaves: Flower: Fruit: To learn more about
this plant, look it up in a good book!
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"In most trees the smooth epidermis of twigs is shed as the bark thickens.... Cherry and birch trees retain the silky epidermal bark on limbs, and in patches, at least, on the trunks of old trees. Here the lenticels are seen as parallel, horizontal slits." Julia E. Rogers, Trees Worth Knowing