Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters

Identifier3.24608

TypeDrawing

Date created1944

DescriptionIllustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time. 

Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters

Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:

Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees

(depicted from left to right)

• White ash -- Fraxinus americana
• Box-elder -- Acer negundo

Section 2: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers in separate clusters on same tree, or in same cluster, or on different trees 

(depicted from left to right)

• Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
• Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum

Section 3: Flowers borne in spherical heads

• Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis

Section 4: Flowers contain both pistil and stamens

• American elm -- Ulmus americana 

Appeared InMorton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, vol.19, no.3, March 1944, p.11.

LanguageEnglish