Scabrous aphananthe
Aphananthe aspera · Cannabaceae · 푸조나무
How to spot it
Unlike Celtis sinensis, the side veins run straight to the tooth tips (they do not in Celtis), the leaf surface is very rough, and the fruit stone has no net pattern.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are alternate, thin, egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped with a long pointed tip, 5-10 cm long and 3-6 cm wide. Margins have sharp teeth and the upper surface is very rough; three veins rise from the base, and 7-12 pairs of side veins run straight to the tooth tips. The leaf stalk is 5-10 mm.
- Flowers
- Blooms around May. Male flowers grow in cymes in the leaf axils of new shoots; green female flowers grow singly or in pairs in the upper leaf axils. The perianth has five lobes.
- Fruit
- The fruit is an egg-round drupe 7-8 mm across with short hairs, ripening black in September-October. The flesh is sweet, and the stone is round without a net pattern.
- Bark
- Bark is pale gray-brown, with small lenticels lined vertically in shallow rows; it cracks along those rows and falls off in pieces.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Found in China and the Korean Peninsula (coastal islands of Jeollanam-do and Gyeongsangnam-do, southern regions below 700 m elevation, Jeju-do, Ulleungdo and others).
- Ecology
- Strongly wind-resistant and grows well in fertile, deep ground. Weak in cold, so it cannot grow in Seoul and the central region; weak against drought and air pollution.