Celtis caucasica

Caucasian hackberry is a medium-sized tree native to Afghanistan, northern India and the Caucasus area.

• Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, obliquely ovate or ovate-lanciolate, 6–10 cm long, asymmetrical at the base, coarsely toothed; stalk is downy, up to 1.3 cm long; leaf veins curve gradually toward tip of the leaf.
• Species is monoecious. Male and female flowers are in clusters, light-green, no petals. Male flowers are in clusters near the base of new branchlets and have 4 to 6 green to brown stamens. Female flowers arise singly or in pairs from the leaf axils at the tip end of the same branchlet as the males, have a 2-part, densely fuzzy style atop a green ovary.
• Fruit is a small berry ( drupe) 6–10 mm in diameter and edible.
• Twigs are zigzag with lenticels, with chambered piths at the nodes. Lateral buds are small, tan.