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Castanopsis delavayi Franch.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Castanopsis delavayi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/castanopsis/castanopsis-delavayi/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
nut
Dry indehiscent single-seeded fruit with woody outer wall.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
stellate
Star-shaped.
tomentum
Dense layer of soft hairs. tomentose With tomentum.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Castanopsis delavayi' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/castanopsis/castanopsis-delavayi/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

An evergreen tree up to 50 ft or more high in a wild state, free from down except for a sprinkling of scurfy stellate tomentum on shoot and leaf when they are quite young. Leaves stiff, leathery; elliptical, ovate or obovate; usually more or less abruptly tapered at the base; bluntish, rounded or pointed at the apex; coarsely toothed to merely wavy at the margin; 2 to 5 in. long, 114 to 3 in. wide; silvery-grey or whitish beneath; veins in six to eight pairs; stalk 14 to 12 in. long. Male flowers yellow, borne on slender erect spikes 4 or 5 in. long. Female catkins about as long, bearing stalkless fruits which, when developed, are globose, about 12 in. wide, covered with stiff short spines, and containing usually one nut.

Native of W. China; discovered in Yunnan by the Abbé Delavay; introduced by Forrest in 1924. It is in cultivation at Caerhays Castle, Cornwall.