Tokyo Winter Hazel - Tokyo Winter Hazel

Japanese: トキワマンサク - ときわまんさく
Tokyo Winter Hazel - Tokyo Winter Hazel

An evergreen shrub or small tree of the Hamamelidaceae (APG classification: Hamamelidaceae) genus Hamamelid. It can reach a height of 10 meters. The trunk is gray-brown, and the young branches are densely covered with pale brown stellate hairs. The leaves are irregularly elliptical, 1.5-4 cm long, entire. Flowers bloom in May, clustered in a slightly head-like shape at the ends of branches that have grown this year, and are pale yellowish-white in color. The capsules are ovoid, about 7 mm long, and bipartite. They are distributed in an isolated area in Honshu (Shizuoka Prefecture, Ise Shrine, Mie Prefecture), Kyushu (Kumamoto Prefecture), Taiwan, southern China, and northeastern India. The name Hamamelid comes from the fact that the flowers resemble those of Hamamelids and the leaves are evergreen. There are three species in this genus.

[Yuichi Kadota May 19, 2020]

[Reference] | Witch hazel | Hamamelaceae
Tokyo Winter Hazel
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree of one genus and one species, and can reach a height of 10 meters. Around May, several pale yellowish-white four-petaled flowers grow in clusters at the ends of the branches. ©Shogakukan Photo by Masatoshi Hirose ">

Tokyo Winter Hazel


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

マンサク科(APG分類:マンサク科)トキワマンサク属の常緑低木または小高木。高さ10メートルに達する。幹は灰褐色、若枝には淡褐色の星状毛が密生する。葉はいびつな楕円(だえん)形、長さ1.5~4センチメートル、全縁。花は5月、今年伸びた枝の先にやや頭状に集まり、淡黄白色。蒴果(さくか)は卵球形で長さ約7ミリメートル、2裂する。本州(静岡県、三重県伊勢(いせ)神宮)、九州(熊本県)、および台湾、中国南部、インド北東部に隔離分布する。花がマンサクに似ており、葉が常緑であるのでこの名がある。本属には3種ある。

[門田裕一 2020年5月19日]

[参照項目] | マンサク | マンサク科
トキワマンサク
1属1種の常緑低木または小高木で、高さ10メートルに達する。5月ごろ、淡黄白色の4弁花が数個まとまって枝先につく©Shogakukan 撮影/広瀬雅敏">

トキワマンサク


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