Asian Supplejack
Berchemiella berchemiifolia · Rhamnaceae · 망개나무
Look
- Leaves
- Long elliptic or ovate-long elliptic, 7 to 12 cm long and 3 to 5 cm wide, powdery white beneath, with a smooth margin or indistinct wavy teeth.
- Flowers
- Yellowish-green flowers bloom in June in cymes in leaf axils near the branch tips or in racemes at the branch tips. The petals are elliptic and shorter than the sepals, and there are five stamens.
- Fruit
- A narrow, long elliptic drupe (7 to 8 mm long); in autumn (August to September) it first turns yellowish, then red, and finally ripens dark red.
- Bark
- The twigs are reddish-brown with scattered small lenticels, and the bark splits finely lengthwise. The main stem grows straight but the branches droop.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Found in Japan and Korea (Gunwi-gun in Daegu and Pohang-si, Songnisan, Juwangsan).
- Ecology
- Likes deep, moist soil and is very cold hardy, overwintering even in Seoul. It sets fruit fairly well, but almost no seedlings arise naturally, so it is described as a tree with poor reproduction.