Cercocarpus
(from kerkis, a shuttle, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the shape of the fruit). ORD. Rosaceoe. Greenhouse or half-hardy evergreen shrubs or small trees. They thrive in a mixture of peat and loam. Cuttings will root if planted in a pot of sand, with a hand glass placed over them. C. fothergilloides (Fothergilla-like).* fl. in axillary umbellate fascicles; calyx purple, with a cylindrical permanent tube. May. l. alternate, entire, nearly elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous, furnished with two petiolar stipules. h. 12ft. Mexico, 1828.