Japanese name: フサザクラ（緑） Scientific name:Euptelea polyandra
[Overview]
A deciduous small tree or tree 3–5 m tall, sometimes reaching 20 m.
It is common along valleys, and often forms dominant stands on collapsed slopes in the mountains and on riverbeds.
The bark is brown with conspicuous horizontally elongated lenticels.
The leaves are simple and alternate, broadly ovate to oblate, 6–12 cm in both length and width.
The leaf margins have irregular coarse teeth.
The petiole is 3–7 cm long.
Leaves on short shoots appear clustered because the internodes are short.
The flowers are borne in bundles on short shoots and bloom before the leaves emerge.
The flowers have no petals, and the dark red stamens hang down in tassels and are conspicuous.
The fruit is a samara 5–7 mm long.
