• Scientific Name: Chionanthus retusus Lindl. & Paxton
• Ref: Paxton’s Flow. Gard. 3:85. 1852
• Synonym: Chionanthus chinensis Maxim.
• English Common Name: Chinese fringetree
• Chinese Common Name: 流苏树 liúsū∙shù, 炭栗树 tànlì∙shù
• Japanese Common Name: ヒトツバタゴ [一つ葉たご/一つ葉田子] hitotsubatago
• Family: Oleaceae
• Genus: Chionanthus
• Distribution: Mixed forests, thickets, along rivers; 0-3000 m. Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [Japan, Korea].
• Photo: 04/14/2013

Shrubs or trees to 20 m. Branchlets terete, spreading, glabrous, or pubescent when young. Petiole 0.5-2 cm, densely covered with curly hairs; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, or orbicular, sometimes ovate or obovate, 3-12 × 2-6.5 cm, usually somewhat leathery, adaxially villous along veins, abaxially villous or glabrescent except on veins, base rounded to cuneate, rarely subcordate, apex blunt, sometimes retuse or acute; primary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midrib, slightly raised. Cymose panicles terminal on lateral shoots, 3-12 cm, glabrescent. Pedicel slender, 0.5-2 cm, glabrous. Calyx 1-3 mm; lobes narrowly deltate or lanceolate, 0.5-2.5 mm. Corolla white; tube 1.5-4 mm; lobes linear-oblanceolate, (1-) 1.5-2.5 cm. Anthers long ovate, 1.5-2 mm. Drupe blue-black or black, pruinose, ovoid, 1-1.5 cm × 6-10 mm. Fl. Mar-Jun, fr. Jun-Nov. 2n = 46*. (Flora of China)

04/24/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

04/24/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang