Red-fruit Spicebush
Lindera erythrocarpa · Lauraceae · 비목나무
Look
- Leaves
- Thick, obovate-lanceolate alternate leaves 7 to 18 cm long and 3 to 5 cm wide, with smooth margins. Glossy above and gray-green below, with a reddish leaf stalk. They turn yellow in autumn.
- Flowers
- In April to May, yellow flowers open before the leaves in many umbels at the leaf axils at the base of the new twigs.
- Fruit
- Round berries (about 12 mm long, 8 mm across) ripen red in clusters of 3 to 10 from late August to mid-October.
- Bark
- Yellowish-white bark; on old trees it falls off in small pieces. One-year-old twigs are pale yellow.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Japan, China, and the Korean Peninsula (south of Chungcheongnam-do and Chungcheongbuk-do, and the west coast of Gyeonggi-do)
- Ecology
- Described as growing well mainly in moist places, strongly salt tolerant, and weak in cold, drought and pollution tolerance.