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Styrax japonicus

 
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Styrax japonicus - Japanese snowbell
Accession: 1986-0538.03
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Scientific name: Styrax japonicus Siebold & Zucc.
Common name: Japanese snowbell
Family: Styracaceae (storax family)
Order: Ericales
Distribution: e Asia
Life form: Shrub or Tree
Leaf Persistence: Deciduous
Description: Shrubs or small trees, 4--8(--10) m tall. Branchlets purple, slightly flattened, becoming terete. Leaves alternate; petiole 5--10 mm; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 4--10 X 2--5(--6) cm, papery to almost leathery, glabrous except for veins or vein axils, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin entire or apically remotely serrate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, secondary veins 5--7 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate, conspicuously raised on both surfaces, and sparsely stellate pubescent. Racemes terminal, 5--8 cm, 5--8-flowered. Pedicel slender, 2.5--3.5 cm, glabrous or sparsely stellate pubescent. Flowers 2--2.8(--3) cm, slightly pendulous. Calyx 4--5 X 3--5 mm, membranous, glabrous or sparsely stellate pubescent, teeth irregular. Corolla tube 3--5 mm; lobes ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 1.6--2.5 X 5--7(--9) mm. Stamens shorter than corolla; filaments slightly expanded, apical free parts white villose. Fruit ovoid, 0.8--1.4 X 0.8--1 cm, irregularly rugose, densely gray stellate tomentose, apex shortly pointed. Seeds brown, conspicuously rugose. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Sep-Dec.
Links: Flora of China • Flora of North America • TreeLib

Locations

  • 1: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0481.01 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3561
  • 2: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0481 (2)‎ • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3561
  • 3: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0483 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3526
  • 4: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0532.02 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3536
  • 5: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0532.01 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3536
  • 6: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0538 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KNW.0292
  • 7: Asian Garden • Accession: 1986-0538 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KNW.0292
  • 8: Asian Garden • Accession: 1997-0543.03 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild
  • 9: Asian Garden • Accession: 1997-0543.02 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild
  • 10: Asian Garden • Accession: 2004-0405 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: PW.118
  • 11: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0050.01 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-088
  • 12: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.01 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 13: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.02 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 14: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.05 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 15: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.06 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 16: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.04 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 17: Asian Garden • Accession: 2019-0051.03 • Origin: China • Provenance: Wild • Collection: NACPEC18-019
  • 18: Island between pathway from parking lot and vehicle entrance/exit to lot • Accession: 1986-0482.01 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3528
  • 19: North parking lot, inside fence • Accession: 1986-0482 • Origin: South Korea • Provenance: Wild • Collection: KE.3528
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