Arbutus L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 11

12. Arbutus L. 1

Evergreen shrubs or trees; leaves alternate, petiolate. Flowers 5-merous, in terminal, bracteate panicles; bracteoles absent. Sepals connate at base. Corolla urceolate, with short, revolute lobes, deciduous. Stamens 10, with villous filaments; anthers with subulate, apical appendages. Fruit a globose berry.

Young twigs glandular-setose, at least in part; flowersproduced in autumn; berry covered with conical papillae 1. unedo

Young twigs glabrous; flowers producedinspring; berryreticulate- sulcate, but without papillae 2. andrachne