Symplocos tinctoria
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Symplocos tinctoria is a species of the plant genus Symplocos of the monogeneric family Symplocaceae. The TNC classifies Symplocos tinctoria as safe (“G5”). English-language common names are common sweetleaf, horse-sugar, yellowwood.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Symplocos tinctoria is a deciduous or evergreen shrub or tree . It is characterized by the chambered pith of the twigs and the not very aromatic and finely hairy leaves on the underside. Symplocos tinctoria reaches heights of growth of up to 17 meters trunk diameter of about 36 centimeters. The longest young shoots are less than 3 millimeters in diameter and tapered buds with ciliate scales.
The leaves are 7 to 15 centimeters long, with entire margins or rarely serrated in the end half, and have a sweet taste that wears off with older leaves.
Generative characteristics
The flowering period extends from March to May. The flowers are inconspicuous and open before the new leaves are formed. The flowers are aromatic and grow in groups in the leaf axils of the previous year's leaves or directly from the stigma of the fallen leaves. The petals are creamy yellow to yellow. The flowers have a pistil.
Remnants of the sepals usually remain on the stalk. With a length of 8 to 12 millimeters, the almost cylindrical to ellipsoid drupes have a thin “fruit layer” and a hard “stone” that contains a seed.
ecology
Wild animals like to eat the leaves. The bark and leaves may give off a yellow dye.
distribution and habitat
Often the plants live as solitaires , rarely in groups. They grow in sparse to dense hillside forests, on steep banks, in deciduous forests on sandy soils, on stream banks and on stable dunes. It is in Symplocos tinctoria is the only representative of the genus in North America, where it is mainly found in the southeastern United States.
Individual evidence
- ^ Symplocos tinctoria . In: NatureServe Explorer . NatureServe. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
- ^ Symplocos tinctoria . United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ Wilbur Howard Duncan, Marion Bennett Duncan: Trees of the Southeastern United States . University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 1988, ISBN 0-8203-0954-0 .
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Web links
- Common Sweetleaf ( Symplocos tinctoria ) (English)
- Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet (English)
- sweetleaf Symplocos tinctoria (English)
- Symplocos tinctoria (English)
- Symplocos tinctoria - (L.) L'Hér. (English)
- Symplocos tinctoria (English)
- (Sweetleaf ( Symplocos tinctoria )) (English)