Lindera obtusiloba Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Deciduous trees or shrubs, 3-10 m tall. Bark black-brown. Branchlets yellow-green, smooth and striate when young, brown scurfy, longitudinally dehiscent, and corky lenticellate when old. Buds ovate, apex acuminate; outer bud scales 3, yellow-brown, elliptic, 6-9 × 6-7 mm, leathery, glabrous, acute at apex; inner bud scales 3, very densely brownish yellow sericeous; sometimes mixed budded, including leaf buds and floral buds. Leaves alternate; petiole 1.5-2.8 cm, yellow-white pubescent; leaf blade pale greenish or sometimes red abaxially, dark green adaxially, suborbicular, compressed-rounded, or elliptic, 5.5-10 × 4.8-10.8 cm, brown-yellow pubescent or glabrate abaxially, trinerved, sometimes pentanerved, reticulate veins distinct, base broadly cuneate, subrounded, rounded, cordate, or subcordate, margin usually entire, sometimes emarginate or wavy, or usually trifid and sometimes pentafid, apex acute or rounded. Mixed buds axillary, elliptic, acute at apex, outer 2 bud scales leathery, brown-yellow, rugose, glabrous, inner bud scales subleathery, adnate-pubescent, with 1 or 2 floral buds inside; floral bud 5 or 6, umbels included. Umbels not pedunculate, with 4 involucral bracts; involucral bracts narrowly elliptic, membranous, villous outside, glabrous inside, 5 flowers included. Male flowers: tepals 6, narrowly elliptic, villous outside and glabrous inside; stamens 9; filaments glabrous, 2-glandular at base in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform, cornute, long stipitate, sometimes 1 at filament base in 2nd whorl; reduced pistil narrowly elliptic, glabrous; style and stigma forming a mucro. Female flowers: tepals 6, narrowly elliptic, ca. 2.5 × 1 mm, slightly short in inner whorl, villous on dorsal keel, glabrous inside; reduced stamens fasciated, ca. 1.7 mm in 1st and 2nd whorls, ca. 1.5 mm in 3rd whorls, 2-glandular at filament base; glands long stipitate; stipe base and filament base coadnate; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 2.2 × 1 mm, glabrous; style less than 1 mm, curved downward before bloom. Fruits broadly ellipsoid, ca. 8 × 5-6 mm, red at maturity, later purple-black, black-brown when dry. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Aug-Sep.
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A spreading deciduous shrub or small tree. It can grow 9 m tall. The branches are grey-yellow and can be flushed with purple. The leaves can have smooth edges or have 3 lobes. The leaves turn golden in autumn. The flowers are small and star-shaped. They are green-yellow and crowded in groups on the previous years growth. The fruit are glossy and dark red to black.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 4.0 - 7.0
Mature height (meter) 5.0 - 7.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.3
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Thickets and copses. Valleys, thickets in dense forests, forests on mountain slopes; at elevations from near sea level to 3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate climate plant. It suits hardiness zones 6-9. Burnie Rhodo gardens. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 2-5
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-9

Usage

Young buds, flowers and leaves are used as a tea substitute. The leaves are fried and served as a ceremonial dish.
Uses environmental use food material medicinal oil tea wood
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
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Images

Lindera obtusiloba unspecified picture

Distribution

Lindera obtusiloba world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Myanmar, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Conservation status

Lindera obtusiloba threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465417-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070367
COL ID 6QFPM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Benzoin obtusilobum Lindera praetermissa Lindera obtusiloba Lindera obtusiloba f. quinqueloba Lindera obtusiloba var. obtusiloba Lindera obtusiloba var. praetermissa Lindera mollis

Lower taxons

Lindera obtusiloba var. heterophylla