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Collection: 00200 - Russell Reid Photograph Collection
Item: 00930
Title: Boxelder tree flowers
Date: 1920
Creator: Reid, Russell, 1900-1967
Inscription/Marks: [Russell Reid negative log] Box Elder flowers
Summary: Close-up of a cut branch of Boxelder tree flowers on neutral background. Boxelder is a medium sized native deciduous tree, growing 30 to 60 feet high with a short trunk (frequently branched) and a broad open crown when growing unobstructed, but in close quarters it will be irregular and main branches will twist and turn to achieve light. Flowers: The tree is dioecious, that is the male and female flowers are on separate trees. Male flowers (staminate) are yellow-green and appear in spring just before the leaves, or with the young leaves, on slender stalks from a common point, near the end of twigs. The calyx of the male flower is yellow-green with 5 very short sepals and no petals and 5 protruding stamens that have long anthers that are dark red initially. Each flower is on a long stalk. The female flowers (pistillate) are more reddish-green with the same 5 sepals and a pistil and a divided style and develop long hairy stalks. They hang in drooping racemes.
Red ID: PH_I_148417 Image ID: 98315 Image Notes: 00200-4x5-C-00930

Collection: 00200 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Russell Reid Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1920-1950

Summary: The photo collection reflects Reid’s wide range of interests: North Dakota history and the fauna, flora, and natural history of the state. Many of the views pertain to specific projects of the State Historical Society of North Dakota and, as such, constitute a photographic history of the organization.

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