Lindera praecox (Siebold & Zucc.) Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Lindera

Characteristics

Deciduous shrubs, up to 4 m tall. Bark black-gray. Young branchlets slender, greenish gray, many lenticellate, rugose; current year branchlets brown, many lenticellate, glabrous. Winter buds corniform-conical, ca. 5 mm. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.5-1 cm, glabrous; leaf blade greenish abaxially, dark green adaxially, ovate or elliptic, 5-9 cm × 2.5-4 mm, glabrous, pinninerved, lateral veins 4 pairs, convex abaxially, slightly concave adaxially, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate. Umbels each inserted at both sides of leaf bud; peduncles glabrous, 4-4.5 mm; involucral bracts 4, red, exserted parts glabrous, 5-flowered inside. Male flowers: tepals broadly elliptic, ca. 2 × 1.5 mm in outer whorl, ca. 1.7 × 1.3 mm in inner whorl, glabrous or laxly white pubescent on outer surface, densely pubescent on inner surface; stamens equal in length, glabrous, 2-glandular at filament base in 3rd whorl; glands broadly reniform, long stipitate, various in shape and size; reduced pistil long corniform-conical. Female flowers: pedicels densely white pubescent; tepals broadly elliptic, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm in outer whorl, ca. 1.2 mm and less than 1 mm wide in inner whorl, laxly white pubescent on outer surface, rather densely pubescent on inner surface; reduced stamens fasciated, 2-glandular at filament base in 3rd whorl; glands reniform, long stipitate; ovary ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; style ca. 1/2 as long as ovary; stigma small, disciform, red-brown. Fruits globose, up to 1.5 cm in diam., yellow-brown at maturity; stipes 7-10 mm, lenticellate, gradually thickened toward apex; hypocarpium nearly 3 mm in diam. Fl. Mar, fr. Sep.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 7.5
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Environment

Thickets on hillsides and on the borders of streams and lakes.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 1-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

Usage

Uses oil
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Lindera praecox unspecified picture

Distribution

Lindera praecox world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:465429-1
WFO ID wfo-0001070368
COL ID 6QFRF
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Benzoin praecox Lindera praecox Parabenzoin praecox