Tapiscia sinensis Oliver

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

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'Tapiscia sinensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/tapiscia/tapiscia-sinensis/). Accessed 2023-03-21.

Genus

Tapiscia

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

axillary: Situated in an axil.
bisexual: See hermaphrodite.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
imparipinnate: Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Tapiscia sinensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/tapiscia/tapiscia-sinensis/). Accessed 2023-03-21.

A deciduous tree, usually about 30 ft high in the wild (very rarely as much as 80 ft, with a trunk 12 ft in girth). Leaves pinnate, 12 to 18 in. long, composed of five to nine leaflets, which are ovate, heart-shaped at the base, pointed, toothed, 3 to 5 in. long, greyish beneath. Flowers honey-scented, male or bisexual, in axillary panicles, those bearing the male flowers composed of many slender spikes, the fertile panicles shorter and more stoutly branched, with larger flowers. Fruits egg-shaped, black, about 3⁄8 in. long.

Native of Central China, where it occurs at comparatively low elevations; introduced by Wilson in 1908, when collecting for the Arnold Arboretum. Wilson introductions from the 1907-8 expedition are uncommon in this country, and this species, which is also tender, has never spread into gardens, or even collections.