Flower Notes:
Brown (Dioecious, ornamentally unimportant)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Dark green in summer); Yellow (Poor yellowish green fall color)
Fruit Notes:
Green (Capsule-like with compressed wings, 1-seeded)
Soil Notes:
Adaptable to soils ranging above pH 7, needs well drained soils.
Range:
Central China, no longer known in the wild.
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves simple, alternate, 3-6" long, 1.5-3" wide, elliptic or ovate to oblong-ovate, acuminate or rounded, serrate, attractive dark green, glabrous and rugose at maturity. When leaf is torn it exhibits rubbery substance. Buds are imbricate, sessile, ovoid, chestnut brown, 1/4" long, ends in a leaf. Olive brown stems with chambered pith. Rigid, furrowed bark that is stringy and rubbery when stripped.
