Cercis chinensis

Chinese redbud is in the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to China and Japan. It is a large shrub or small tree and can reach up to 14 m tall.

• Leaves are alternate, simple, untoothed, and heart shaped to round, 7–15 cm long and wide, not folded in the middle (unlike C. siliquastrum). Petioles are swollen at the ends.
• Bud clusters on the branches and even stems develop into many clusters of magenta pink flowers about 1.5 cm long in spring.
• Fruit is a flattened, brown pod, 6–10 cm long containing flat, elliptical seeds which are produced in the fall.
• Twigs are slender and zigzag, gray brown; buds in winter are oval, pointed, singular or in small clusters.