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Celtis biondii ("Kobanochosen'enoki")

Japanese name: コバノチョウセンエノキ (小葉朝鮮榎)
Scientific name: Celtis biondii

A small deciduous tree.
The bark is gray, and the twigs are at first densely covered with pressed yellowish brown hairs.
The leaves are simple and alternate, obovate to broadly obovate, 3–7 cm long and 2–3.5 cm wide, slightly asymmetrical on the two sides, with a tail-like tapering tip.
The upper half of the leaf has a few teeth.
Three veins arise from the base of the leaf.
The leaf texture is rather hard and thick, and the upper surface has coarse hairs.
There are male and female flowers; the male flowers grow in clusters of several at the base of young twigs and have 4 petals, about 6 mm across.
The female flowers grow in the leaf axils.
The fruit is spherical, about 6 mm across, and ripens to blackish brown or black.

Details

Names
Japanese: コバノチョウセンエノキ(小葉朝鮮榎)、コウライエノキ(高麗榎)、サキシマエノキ(先島榎)
Life form
Small tree
Evergreen / deciduous
Deciduous
Leaf type
Broadleaf
Habit
Terrestrial
Flowering season
May
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu: Kinki region and west, Shikoku, Kyushu, Ryukyu), Korea, China
Growth form
Upright
Leaf shape
Simple leaf (unlobed)
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf margin
Serrate
Inflorescence
Fascicled, Solitary
Number of petals
4
Flower diameter
6
Fruit color
Brown, Black
Leaf color
Green
Designated plants
CR: Critically Endangered (Class IA)

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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