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palo blanco U.S.|ˈpæləʊ ˈblænkəʊ|
[Amer. Sp., = ‘white tree’.]
A small tree or shrub of the genus Celtis, esp. C. reticulata, the western hackberry, belonging to the family Ulmaceæ, native to south-western North America and distinguished by its light-coloured bark, downy leaves, and red berries (see also quot. 1947).
1838S. Maverick Let. 30 Dec. in ‘R. M. Green’ Samuel Maverick (1953) v. 83 Griffin & Granville can cut posts or pickets, and haul them to the (palo-blanco) hackberry tree. 1901J. C. van Dyke Desert 147 All the common growths like the sage, the mesquite, the palo fierro, and the palo blanco, are blossom bearers. 1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serp. xix. 326 The car went on, the great lights glaring upon the hedges of cactus and mesquite and palo blanco trees. 1927― Mornings in Mexico 33 A valley bed, where is..the palo-blanco..with big white flowers like pure white, crumpled cambric. 1938L. N. Goodding Notes Native & Exotic Plants (U.S. Dept. Agric. Soil Conservation Service) 52 Palo Blanco or White Bark Hackberry..furnishes shade along many of the dry washes. 1947J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpture x. 293 Palo Blanco means ‘white wood’ and the name is applied to many woods of different species. 1951Kearney & Peebles Arizona Flora 220 Celtis reticulata... Netleaf hackberry, palo-blanco, sugar-berry. 1958E. M. Reiss Garden of Chaparral 140 Palo-blanco; Hackberry (Celtis laevigata). A thirty-foot tree with whitish bark which accounts for its local name. 1960R. Vines Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines of Southwest 203/2 A vernacular name [of Celtis lindheimeri] is Palo Blanco. |