Celtis biondii Pampan.

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

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'Celtis biondii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/celtis/celtis-biondii/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Celtis biondii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/celtis/celtis-biondii/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A deciduous tree up to 45 ft high, often a large shrub; young shoots rusty-downy at first, becoming almost or quite glabrous by the end of the season. Leaves ovate to narrowly oval, pointed (sometimes slenderly), tapered to rounded at the base, more or less coarsely toothed towards the apex or toothless; 112 to 4 in. long; downy at first but almost or quite glabrous by autumn; stalk 18 to 13 in. long. Fruit solitary, in pairs or in threes, globose or slightly tapered towards the top, orange-coloured, 14 in. long. on a stalk about twice the length.

Native of Central China; in cultivation at Kew since 1902. It resembles C. bungeana in its leaves being toothed above the middle only and in the short leaf­stalks, but that species has black or purplish-black fruits. The tree at Kew, planted in 1902, now measures 35 × 312 ft (1967).

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

The tree at Kew has been reidentified as C. bungeana.