Japanese name: フジキ（藤木） Scientific name:Cladrastis platycarpa
[Overview]
A deciduous tree 10–15 m tall, found in mountain areas.
Young branches are covered with soft hairs.
Leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with 10–12 alternate leaflets.
The leaflets are ovate-oblong, 5–11 cm long and 2–4 cm wide, with white soft hairs along the veins on both surfaces, and have leaflet stalks and stipels.
The leaf rachis is covered with white soft hairs.
A compound raceme 12–25 cm long emerges at the branch tips; the inflorescence axis, inflorescence stalk and flower stalks are fairly densely covered with brown soft hairs.
The flowers are white pea-shaped flowers, and the calyx is densely covered with short, appressed brown hairs.
The fruit is a winged legume, broadly linear, 4–8 cm long and 1.2–1.7 cm wide.
The seeds are flat and elliptical, with 1–3 in each pod.
