- Scientific Name: Diospyros japonica Siebold & Zucc.
- Ref: Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4, 3:136. 1846
- Synonyms: Diospyros glaucifolia Metcalf; D. glaucifolia var. brevipes S.K.Lee; D. kuroiwae Nakai; D. microcarpa Siebold; D. pseudolotus Naudin; D. sichourensis C.Y.Wu
- Chinese Common Name: 山柿 shānshì, 粉叶柿 fěnyè∙shì, 浙江柿 Zhèjiāng shì
- Japanese Common Name: リュウキュウマメガキ [琉球豆柿] ryūkyūmamegaki
- Family: Ebenaceae
- Genus: Diospyros
- Distribution: Slopes, mixed forests or by streams in ravines; 600–1300 m. Anhui, Fujian, NW Guangdong, NE Guangxi, NW Guizhou, SW Hunan. Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan?, Zhejiang [Japan].
- Photo: 05/22/2013
Trees to 17 m tall, deciduous. Trunk to 50 cm d.b.h. Branchlets dark brown to blackish brown, glabrous. Winter buds ovate, 4--5 mm, glabrous. Petiole 1.2--2.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic to lanceolate, 7.5--17.5 X 3.5--7.5 cm, thinly leathery, glabrous or sparsely appressed pubescent, abaxially glaucous, base rounded to truncate, apex acuminate, lateral veins 7 or 8 per side, reticulate veinlets dense, dark, and not raised. Male flowers in cymes; pedicel ca. 1 mm; calyx lobes 4; corolla urn-shaped, lobes 4; stamens 16. Female flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3; calyx lobes 4, sparsely pubescent; corolla yellowish, urn-shaped, ca. 7 mm, tube ca. 5 mm; style 4-parted; stigma emarginate. Fruiting pedicel 2--3 mm. Fruiting calyx 1.3--1.6 cm in diam., divided to below middle, ± spreading, outside sparsely pubescent; lobes 4, triangular-ovate, (4--)6--8 X ca. 6 mm, appressed to fruit, margin sometimes revolute. Berries orange-yellow, becoming red, globose to depressed globose, 1.5--2(--3) cm in diam., 8-locular, glaucous. Seeds oblong, strongly compressed, 9--12 X 4.5--6.5 X 2--3 mm. Fl. Apr-Jul, fr. Sep-Nov. (Flora of China)
