INDIAN CHERRY; YELLOW BUCKTHORN (Rhamnus Cara liniana, Walt.). el) to 55 feet. Blender, spreading tree, or tall shrub, with thornless, angular twigs, reddish, becoming gray. Bark gray, blotched with black, slightly furrowed. Wood hard, close-grained, brittle, light brown. Leaves alter nate, elliptical, acute, faintly serrate, 2 to 5 inches long, yellow green, with paler lining, and yellow veins. Petioles short.
Flowers small, on axillary cymes, pubescent, after leaves. Fruit berry-like, to 4-celled drupe, red as it ripens, becoming black, thin-fleshed, sweet, dry. with 4 to 4 bony nutlets. Dist.: Limestone hills and bottom lands, Long Island to Florida; west to Nebraska and Texas. Sometimes planted as an ornamental tree, for the brightness of its cherry-like fruits.