Elaeagnus bockii Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Elaeagnaceae > Elaeagnus

Characteristics

Shrubs, evergreen, erect, 1-3 m tall. Spines often present, thick; young branches with dense rust-colored or brown scales. Petiole brown, 4-8 mm; leaf blade adaxially drying pale green, narrowly oblong-elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, 3-9 × 0.8-3.5 cm, papery or subleathery, abaxially with overlapping silvery scales, older leaf blades with scattered brown scales, scales obscurely lobed and deeply fimbriate-lacerate, adaxially soon glabrous, lateral veins 5-7 per side of midrib, slightly raised on both surfaces, base tapered, margin very narrowly revolute, apex acuminate or rounded. Flowers 5-7 in axils. Pedicel 3-5 mm; fruiting pedicel 4-13 mm. Flowers white, outside densely scaly; scales silvery, irregularly lobed, shallowly lacerate. Calyx tube tubular or funnelform-tubular, 5-7 mm; lobes ovate-triangular, 2.5-3 mm, inside sparsely white stellate-scaly, apex acute. Filaments very short, ca. 0.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.2 mm. Style erect, curved at apex, densely whitish stellate-hairy to subglabrous. Drupe red, broadly cylindric, 1-1.2 cm. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Apr.
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An evergreen shrub. It grows 2 m high. It has stout short thorns on the branches. The current year's growth has scales. The leaves are narrowly oval and 5-11 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. The edges are curve back when dry. The flowers are in clusters in the axils of leaves. They are funnel shaped and there are 4 lobes at the end. They are 10 mm long by 3 mm wide. The fruit are oblong and 9-10 mm long. They are red and hang down.
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
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Nitrogen fixer frankia
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in central China. It grows between 600-2,400 m above sea level. In Sichuan.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible fruits
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Germination duration (days) 140 - 180
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 18
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Distribution

Elaeagnus bockii world distribution map, present in China

Conservation status

Elaeagnus bockii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:323660-1
WFO ID wfo-0000663692
COL ID 6DZT8
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Synonyms

Elaeagnus bockii Elaeagnus bockii var. bockii

Lower taxons

Elaeagnus bockii var. muliensis