Litsea japonica
Litsea japonica · Lauraceae · 까마귀쪽나무
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate long-elliptic leaves on stalks, 10 to 15 cm long and thick and leathery, resembling rhododendron leaves; dark green and smooth above, densely woolly below.
- Flowers
- Small yellowish-white flowers cluster in the leaf axils around October.
- Fruit
- Elliptic berries ripen to bluish black the following year.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Coasts of Honshu (west of the Chugoku region), Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan.
- Ecology
- Common on coasts in warm regions, and described as a host of butterflies such as the Japanese black swallowtail.