Titi, pronounced "tie-tie", is a common wetland shrub or small tree of the Coastal Plain, rare in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
Scotland Co., NC 7/1/07.
Titi is occasional in the western Piedmont, as here along Barnes Creek near Dark Mountain.
Emerging leaves.
Uwharrie National Forest, Montgomery Co., NC 4/17/2011.
Wake Co., NC 5/30/2011.
The entire, smooth, leathery leaves are semi-evergreen.
Wake Co., NC 5/30/2011.
Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.
Carteret Co., NC 6/23/04.
Craven Co., NC 8/27/06.
Bladen Co., NC 10/7/06.
Titi is quite showy in bloom, when it produces numerous racemes of white flowers (which earns it the name racemiflora - raceme + flower). The flowers usually do not attract butterflies.
Carteret Co., NC 6/23/04.
Scotland Co., NC 7/1/07.
Unripe fruits.
Craven Co., NC 8/27/06.
Ripe fruits. The spongy, drupe-like fruits are brownish when ripe.
Robeson Co., NC 10/4/2009.
Yates Mill Pond, Raleigh, NC 9/13/2012.
Yates Mill Pond, Raleigh, NC 9/13/2012.
Pender Co., NC 4/19/08.
Bark detail.
Bladen Co., NC 10/7/06.
Scaly bark of a larger tree.
Uwharrie National Forest, Montgomery Co., NC 4/17/2011.