Trees or shrubs, evergreen, 4–12 m tall. Bark gray or grayish brown; young branches grayish green, typically pubescent with white appressed trichomes, rarely tomentose; old branches grayish brown, nearly glabrous. Flower buds globose, exposed, subtended by 4 small green bracts. Leaf buds subtending flower buds, covered by small triangular to lanceolate scales. Leaf blade grayish green on both surfaces, oblong-elliptic or obovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 7–9(–12) × 2–4(–5) cm, thinly to thickly leathery, densely pubescent with white appressed trichomes, scabrous, rarely tomentose, axils of veins sometimes with aggregated white raised soft trichomes, veins 3 or 4, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate-caudate. Cymes globose, 0.8–1.2 cm in diam., 55–80(–95)-flowered; bracts yellowish, turning white, narrowly ovate to obovate, 2.5–5 × 0.9–2.2 cm. Calyx tube 0.7–1 mm, truncate to slightly 4-lobed. Petals ovate, ca. 2.8 × 1.5 mm. Style cylindrical, ca. 1.5 mm, densely pubescent with white trichomes. Infructescence globose, 1.5–2.5 cm in diam., pubescent with white appressed trichomes, red at maturity; peduncle 5.5–10 cm, slender. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Oct–Nov.
Forests, slopes, streamsides; 300–2200 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan.
Herbalvitagreen is an online company that offers the largest collection of plant seeds from China. Our main offerings include: hundreds of flower seeds, rare and hard to find tree seeds, vegetable seeds and herb seeds for both the home gardener and the wholesale trade. Due to ” honesty and friendly “, our customers around the world now: USA, RU, UK, JP, GE, FR etc. We appreciate your any inquiry, thank you!
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.