Chinese Redbud
Cercis chinensis · Fabaceae · 박태기나무
How to spot it
Glossy heart-shaped leaves and deep purple flowers clustered on older branches.
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo Dinkum · CC0 
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo El Grafo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate heart-shaped simple leaves, leathery and dark green.
- Flowers
- Rosy-purple pea-like flowers appear in clusters on older branches and trunk before the leaves.
- Fruit
- Long, flat pods like bean pods.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Native to forests of central and southern China.
- Ecology
- Horticultural sources record that the flowers give nectar to bees and birds eat the seeds from the pods that follow pollination.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- University of Richmond / Campus Trees: Cercis chinensis
- 산림청·국립수목원 (2012), 한국의 가로수 — 나무가 만드는 아름다운 길
- 한국농촌경제연구원 — 조경수 관측월보 2025년 12월(한국조경수협회 게시 원문)
- 한국민족문화대백과사전
- 『續齊諧記』 원문 '田氏紫荊樹' 조 (維基文庫 전사본)
- iPlant 植物智(중국과학원 식물연구소) — 紫荆 Cercis chinensis