Carpinus cordata Blume

Sawa hornbeam (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Betulaceae > Carpinus

Characteristics

Trees to 18 m tall; bark gray or black-gray, scaly fissured. Branchlets brown or yellow-brown, glabrous or sparsely villous when young and glabrescent or densely pubescent and villous. Petiole 1.5-2 cm, glabrescent or sparsely villous to densely pubescent or tomentose; leaf blade ovate, ovate-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 8-15 × 4-5 cm, abaxially sparsely to densely villous along midvein and lateral veins or densely pubescent and tomentose, adaxially sparsely villous or glabrescent, base unequally cordate, margin irregularly and doubly setiform serrate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate; lateral veins 15-20 on each side of midvein. Female inflorescence 5-12 × 4-4.5 cm; peduncle 3-4 cm, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent; bracts densely overlapping, broadly ovate-oblong, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.3 cm, glabrous except abaxially bearded at base, outer margin remotely serrate and inflexed, inner margin remotely serrate distally, with oblong basal lobe enclosing nutlet; veins 5, reticulate veins faint. Nutlet oblong, 4-6 × ca. 2 mm, glabrous, faintly ribbed. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 16.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 15.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.4
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Forests, growing on deep, rich and moist soils of mountain slopes; at elevations from 200-2,500 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-9
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-7

Usage

Uses material medicinal oil wood
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Carpinus cordata unspecified picture

Distribution

Carpinus cordata world distribution map, present in Chile, China, Japan, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Conservation status

Carpinus cordata threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295253-1
WFO ID wfo-0000804828
COL ID RG2D
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Carpinus cordata Distegocarpus cordatus

Lower taxons

Carpinus cordata var. chinensis Carpinus cordata var. cordata Carpinus cordata var. mollis