Bumald's bladdernut
Staphylea bumalda · Staphyleaceae · 고추나무
Look
- Leaves
- Compound leaves of three leaflets grow opposite. Leaflets are egg-shaped and narrow at both ends, 4-10 cm long, with needle-like fine teeth on the margin and hairs on the veins beneath.
- Flowers
- From late April to mid-June, white flowers bloom in panicles 5-8 cm long at the branch tips. The flowers are in fives.
- Fruit
- A swollen, half-round capsule like a rubber pillow (1.5-2.5 cm long), split in two at the top. Seeds are yellow, obovate (5 mm long) and ripen from late August to mid-October.
- Bark
- Deep red or gray-brown, shallowly fissured lengthwise.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- China, Japan, and throughout the Korean Peninsula
- Ecology
- Described as strongly cold-hardy, growing well in both shade and sun, and preferring moist places to dry ones.