East Asian Eurya; Eurya
Eurya japonica · Pentaphylacaceae · 사스레피나무
Look
- Leaves
- Thick, leathery lanceolate leaves 2.5 to 7.5 cm long and 1.3 to 2.5 cm wide with toothed margins.
- Flowers
- From early spring to mid-spring, small cream-colored flowers hang on short stalks from the leaf axils along the underside of the twigs.
- Fruit
- Dark blue-black berries ripen in fall; described as forming on female plants when a male plant is nearby.
- Bark
- Young twigs are gray-brown to brown; current-year twigs are yellow-green to light brown.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Mountains of China, Korea, central and southern Japan, and Vietnam.