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ophis: 1st year twig, black cherry
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ophis: lower bud scales with darkened mucronate tips
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ophis: most twigs speckled with tiny round raised lenticels
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ophis: 1st yr twigs paler than older ones
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ophis: leaf scars jutting and crescentic
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ophis: 1st yr spur on 2nd yr twig, black cherry
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ophis: older twigs often with longitudinally cracked waxy bloom on one side
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ophis: ground color of older twigs shiny dark olive or purplish
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ophis: young twigs thin, straightish, spreading-ascending