Japanese Snowbell
Styrax japonicus · Styracaceae · 때죽나무
How to spot it
Characterized by drooping white bell-shaped flowers with yellow stamens, and brown bark with interlacing orange-brown cracks.
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate simple leaves, glossy above, with shallow marginal teeth.
- Flowers
- White bell-shaped flowers hang on long stalks, with yellow stamens.
- Fruit
- Egg-shaped grayish-white fruits hang down, each holding one seed.
- Bark
- Orange shows through the cracks of the gray-brown bark.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- NC State gives a native range from China to Japan and northern Philippines.
- Ecology
- Horticultural sources record that the flowers attract bees and other pollinators.