Camptotheca acuminata Decne.

Camptotheca (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Cornales > Nyssaceae > Camptotheca

Characteristics

Trees deciduous, to 20 m high; bark light gray, deeply furrowed; young branchlets purplish, villous, old branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1.5-3 cm; leaf blade abaxially greenish and lucid, oblong-ovate, oblong-elliptic, or orbicular, 12-28 × 6-12 cm, papery, slightly pubescent, lateral veins (4-)8-11(-15) pairs, base subrounded, margin entire, apex acute. Head terminal or axillary, often 2-9-flowered, 1.5-2 in diam.; bracts 3, triangular, 2.5-3 mm, both surfaces pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, shallowly 5-lobed. Petals 5, light green, ca. 2 mm. Disk conspic-uous. Stamens 10, outer 5 longer than petals, glabrous. Style ca. 4 mm, glabrous; stigmas 2. Fruit thinly winged, gray-brown, 2.5-3.5 cm × 5-7 mm, smooth and lucid when dry. Seed 1; cotyledons lanceolate, 2-4 × ca. 1 cm, pinniveined, with 6-8 lateral veins on each side. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Sep. 2n = 44*.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 20.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses afforestation environmental use medicinal
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Therapeutic use Cancer (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Images

Leaf

Camptotheca acuminata leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Camptotheca acuminata leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)
Camptotheca acuminata leaf picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Camptotheca acuminata flower picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Camptotheca acuminata fruit picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Camptotheca acuminata world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:271482-1
WFO ID wfo-0000794374
COL ID QG54
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Synonyms

Camptotheca yunnanensis Cephalanthus esquirolii Camptotheca acuminata var. tenuifolia Camptotheca acuminata var. rotundifolia Camptotheca acuminata var. acuminata Camptotheca acuminata