Myrica gale
 
Sweet Gale

Fruit Side

3.2 km North of Highway 3 on Silica Sands Road, East of Hudson Bay
09-August-2016

The fruit is a nut flanked by two spongy bracteoles which are adnate to the base of the fruit wall.

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Myricaceae: Answers to key questions in Conifers & Catkin-Bearing Trees and Shrubs of Saskatchewan by George Argus, Vernon Harms, Anna Leighton, and Mary Vetter leading to this family.
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plants usually aromatic

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leaves commonly with peltate, multicellular, glandular trichomes; NOT [leaf glands if present, resinous and not as above]

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plants usually dioecious; NOT [plants monoecious]

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fruit a nut, enclosed by persistent, accrescent bracts and bracteoles; NOT [fruits samaras or nuts lacking persistent bracts and bracteoles], NOT [fruits many-seeded capsules]