Japanese name: ハドノキ Scientific name:Oreocnide pedunculata
[Overview]
An evergreen shrub 4–5 m tall, found in secondary forests and at forest edges.
The bark is reddish brown, and the branches have short, flattened hairs.
Leaves are simple and alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 5–15 cm long and 2–4 cm wide, somewhat thick, with a pointed tip and three conspicuous veins; both surfaces are hairless or have short, flattened hairs.
The leaf margin has blunt teeth.
The petiole is 1–3 cm long and usually tinged with red.
The plant is dioecious.
Small flowers are densely borne in globular clusters; the female inflorescence has a short stalk, and the male inflorescence is stalkless.
The fruit is an ovate black achene, enclosed in a fleshy, dish-shaped white perianth.
