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Encyclopedia Britannica



NETTLE TREE

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 422 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NETTLE TREE , the name applied to certain trees of the genus Celtis, belonging to the family or natural order Ulmaceae. The best-known species have usually obliquely ovate, or lanceolate leaves, serrate at the edge, and marked by three prominent nerves. The
flowers
  are inconspicuous, usually hermaphrodite, with a 4- or 5-parted perianth, as many stamens, a hairy disk and a 1-celled ovary with a 2-parted style. The fruit is succulent like a little drupe, a character which serves to
separate
  the genus alike from the nettles and the elms, to both of which it is allied. Celtis australis is a common tree, both wild and planted, through-out the Mediterranean region extending to Afghanistan and the Himalayas; it is also cultivated in
Great
  Britain. It is a rapidly growing tree, from 30 to 40 ft. high, with a remarkably sweet fruit, recalling a small black cherry, and was one of the plants to which the term " lotus " was applied by Dioscorides and the older authors. The
wood
 , which is compact and hard and takes a high polish, is used for a variety of purposes. C. occidentalis, a North American species, is the hackberry (q.v.).


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