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NETTLE TREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 422 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NETTLE See also:TREE , the name applied to certain trees of the genus Celtis, belonging to the See also:family or natural See also:order Ulmaceae. The best-known See also:species have usually obliquely ovate, or lanceolate leaves, serrate at the edge, and marked by three prominent nerves. The See also: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 See also:style. The See also:fruit is succulent like a little drupe, a See also:character which serves to See also:separate the genus alike from the nettles and the elms, to both of which it is allied. Celtis australis is a See also:common tree, both See also:wild and planted, through-out the Mediterranean region extending to See also:Afghanistan and the Himalayas; it is also cultivated in See also:Great See also:Britain. It is a rapidly growing tree, from 30 to 40 ft. high, with a remarkably sweet fruit, recalling a small See also:black See also:cherry, and was one of the See also:plants to which the See also:term " See also:lotus " was applied by Dioscorides and the older authors. The See also:wood, which is compact and hard and takes a high See also:polish, is used for a variety of purposes. C. occidentalis, a See also:North See also:American species, is the See also:hackberry (q.v.).

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