Japanese Pagoda Tree

Styphnolobium japonicum

Flower name
Japanese Pagoda Tree
Scientific name
Styphnolobium japonicum
Alias三公の木, 槐, Japanese pagoda tree, Chinese scholar tree
Place of originChina
Place of floweringGarden, Park
Flowering seasonJuly, August

What is Japanese Pagoda Tree

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Japanese pagoda tree , scientific name: Styphnolobium japonicum , is native to China, is a deciduous broadleaf tree legumes. Stretch out from the tip of the stalk summer flower panicles, reconvene the large numbers of White Butterfly-shaped flowers bloom. Good luck to a successful career and sacred tree in China, will be planted. Leaf is fake, as well as Acacia impari-pinnate leaf, leaflet have palmately lobed with a. Flowers are nectar sources. Also aiming for fruit in the fall of the flying birds. Say that Sophora flower buds, flowers, rutin and recover the capillaries because they contain the raw material medicines for high blood pressure and bleeding. Becomes hemorrhoid medicine is called Sophora fruit shape with beans on the beads through the narrow mucus difficult to contain dry dehiscent does not. Trees are so resistant to pollution. Carved altars, pot stand, crafted and workpiece material and, in addition, under the name "Acacia" is another tree of maackia amurensis.

Generic name: Japanese pagoda tree, scientific name: Styphnolobium japonicum, also known as Nichido Pagoda Tree, origin: China, distribution: Hokkaido-Kyushu Japan, Korean peninsula, China, height: 10-25 m, bark color: dark gray, stem diameter: 50-100 cm, bark: longitudinal fissure, leaf: odd pinnately compound leaves, leaf color: green (table), light green (back), leaf length: 15-20 cm, leaf length: 3-5 cm, leaf margin: entire rim,　Small leaf: oval, leaf arrangement: alternate, asymmetric flower, inflorescences form: panicles, inflorescence length: 15 to 30 cm, flower color: white-pale yellow, flower diameter: 1-1.5 cm, petal shape, butterfly-shaped, flowering period: July to August , places of flowers : branches, fruit types: bean fruit, fruit diameter: 4-8 cm, seed color: Brown , the fruiting period: in October, applications: Park trees, trees, trees, utensils, medicines.