Tetradium
| Habit | tree
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| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Features: | ✓ | deciduous |
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Tetradium is a genus of nine species of trees in the family Rutaceae, occurring in temperate to tropical east Asia. In older books, the genus was often included in the related genus Euodia (orthographic error, "Evodia"), but that genus is now restricted to tropical species (1). In cultivation in English-speaking countries, they are known as Euodia, Evodia, or Bee bee tree.
They are attractive trees with deciduous glossy pinnate leaves. Tetradium daniellii (syn. T. hupehensis) develops a smooth gray bark that resembles that of a beech tree and grows to a height of 20 metres. The leaves resemble the foliage of an ash tree and are a glossy dark green in summer. In fall there is little color change and leaves tend to drop green to yellow-green. The tree is covered in late July and August with masses of large flat white to gray cluster of small white flowers, particularly valued when few other tree-size plants are flowering. It attracts large numbers of bees and is sought after by beekeepers as a source of late summer honey. The flowers produce clusters of seed that is present from late August through November. The seeds start as bright red capsules that when fully ripe open to expose shiny black buckshot seed as Autumn progresses. The small, red-to-black berries are popular with many birds.
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Species
Nine species including:
- Tetradium austrosinense - Korean Euodia
- Tetradium calcicola
- Tetradium daniellii - Korean Euodia
- Tetradium fraxinifolium (Hook.) T. G. Hartley
- Tetradium glabrifolium (Champ. ex Benth.) T. G. Hartley
- Tetradium ruticarpum
- Tetradium trichotomum
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References
External links
- w:Tetradium. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Tetradium QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)