Celtis bungeana

Bunge's species

CannabaceaeCeltis

Bunge’s hackberry is a large shrub or small tree in the cannabis or Cannabaceae family and is native to the temperate zone of Asia in China and Korea. It can grow up to 15 m in height, forming a rounded, bushy head.

  • Leaves are deciduous, alternate, simple, ovate to ovate-lanciolate, 5–9 cm long and 2.5–4.5 cm wide, rounded, unequal sided, and three-nerved at the base, taper-pointed, with a few remote teeth towards the apex only, sometimes almost entire; dark glossy green and glabrous above, paler and glossy beneath, with small tufts of down in the lower vein-axils; petiole is 6-8 mm long, slightly downy.
  • The tree flowers from April to May, and the fruit ripens from October to November; fruit is egg-shaped, black, on stocks 1.8 cm long.

Contributors

  • Philippe de Spoelberch