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Platycarya strobilacea Siebold & Zucc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fagales > Juglandaceae > Platycarya

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs to 15 m tall. Leaves (6-)8-30 cm; petiole 1.2-9.2 cm, glabrous; rachis glabrous; leaflets 1-15(-23); lateral leaflets sessile, blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 3-11 × 1.5-3.5 cm, abaxially glabrous, except for dense cluster of hairs at base and along midvein abaxially, base oblique to cuneate; terminal leaflet with petiolule 0.6-3.5 cm, base rounded or broadly cuneate. Androgynous spike 2-10 cm; central spike female in basal 1-3 cm, male in apical 1-3.4 cm, or sometimes absent. Male spikes 2-15 cm; bracts ovate, 2-3 mm, apex acute to acuminate. Female flowers with bract straight or reflexed. Fruiting spike ovoid-ellipsoid or ellipsoid-cylindric to subglobose, 2.5-5 × (1.2-)2-3 cm; bracts lanceolate, 4-10 × 2-3 mm. Nutlets suborbicular to obovate, 3-6 × 3-6 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Oct. 2n = 28.
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A shrub or tree. It can be 15-25 m high. It spreads 10 m wide. The bark is yellow-brown with cracks along it. The leaves are 8-30 cm long. The leaf stalk is 1.2-9.2 cm long. There are 1-15 leaflets. The side leaflets do not have leaf stalks. The leaflets taper to a point. The flower spike has female flowers at the base and male flowers at the tip. The female section is 1-3 cm long and the male section is 1-3.5 cm long. There are also male spikes 2-15 cm long. The fruit are like cones and 4 cm long. The nutlets are oval and 3-6 mm long by 3-6 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 11.0
Mature height (meter) 12.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is native to E. Asia. In China it grows in mixed forests on mountain slopes between 400-1400 m altitude. It can be higher. It needs well-drained soil. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.
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Thickets and woods from sea level to 1300 metres. Mixed forests on mountain slopes, sometimes on limestone, at elevations of 400-2,200 metres.
Light 6-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses dye medicinal wood
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Scalp (unspecified), Incense (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Perfume (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or by layering.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Platycarya strobilacea unspecified picture

Distribution

Platycarya strobilacea world distribution map, present in China, Georgia, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Tajikistan, Viet Nam, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:442460-1
WFO ID wfo-0001067482
COL ID 4JNYQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Platycarya longipes Fortunaea chinensis Platycarya strobilacea Petrophiloides longipes Petrophiloides strobilacea Platycarya simplicifolia Platycarya simplicifolia var. ternata
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