Aria latifolia
species of plant
Aria latifolia, the broad-leaved whitebeam, service tree of Fontainebleau, or alisier de Fontainebleau in French, is a species of whitebeam that is endemic to the area around Fontainebleau, south of Paris in France, where it has been known since the early eighteenth century.
Description
Aria latifolia is a deciduous, up to 20 m tall tree with a trunk up to 60 cm in diameter. The bark is smooth and grey, and becomes fissured at the base in old trees. The leaves are 5–10 cm long and broad (rarely, up to 20 cm long and 12 cm broad), but, most typically, the leaves are approximately as broad as they are long. They are green above, downy with greyish-white hairs beneath, with six to ten small triangular teeth along each margin. The flowers are 1–1.5 cm wide, with five creamy-white petals and yellowish stamens; they are produced in corymbs about eight centimetres in diameter in mid-spring. The fruit is a globular, dull brownish-red, pome of 10–12 mm diameter, dotted with large pale lenticels, ripening in late autumn. The fruit bears 1–2 seeds.
Cytology
The chromosome count is 2n = 34.
Taxonomy
It was first described as Crataegus latifolia Lam.
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