Machilus thunbergii Siebold & Zucc.

Species

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae > Machilus

Characteristics

Evergreen trees, usually 10-15(-20) m tall; trunk 65-130 cm d.b.h. Bark yellowish brown. Older branchlets rough; young branchlets purple-brown when fresh, glabrous. Buds ovoid or oblong-ovoid; bud scales golden brown or reddish brown, suborbicular, leathery, ciliate, apex rotund, outer scales puberulent, inner ones tomentose outside. Petiole slender, 1-3.5 cm, reddish when fresh; leaf blade lustrous on both surfaces, abaxially glaucescent, obovate to obovate-lanceolate, 4.5-9(-13) × 3-6 cm, leathery, glabrous on both surfaces, midrib distinctly elevated abaxially, somewhat impressed adaxially, lateral veins 7-12 pairs, slightly straightly ascendant, nearly curved at margin, veinlets obscure, base cuneate, apex obtuse or abruptly cuspidate. Inflorescences arising from base of young shoots, 5-11.8 cm, branched at upper part of peduncle, glabrous, many flowered. Pedicel 6-9 mm. Perianth lobes oblong, ca. 5 mm, outer ones narrower, slightly short, apex acute, glabrous outside, pubescent toward apex inside. Filaments glabrous, those of 3rd series with stipitate glands at base. Staminodes hispid at base. Ovary globose, glabrous; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit green becoming dark purple, compressed globose, 8-10 mm in diam.; peduncle and fruiting pedicel reddish purple. Fl. Feb, fr. Jun-Aug.
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A tree.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
Mature height (meter) 6.55 - 9.65
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 1.0
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The bark is boiled and processed into candy or toffee
Uses construction food material medicinal
Edible barks
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Machilus thunbergii unspecified picture

Distribution

Machilus thunbergii world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Philippines, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Machilus thunbergii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466273-1
WFO ID wfo-0000373778
COL ID 3WZ3M
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Laurus indica Machilus thunbergii Persea thunbergii Machilus arisanensis Machilus kwashotensis Machilus nanshoensis Machilus taiwanensis Machilus macrophylla var. arisanensis Machilus thunbergii var. trochodendroides Machilus thunbergii var. kwashotensis Persea arisanensis