Koelreuteria elegans subsp. formosana

Family: Sapindaceae   

Common Name: Golden-rain Tree

Scientific Synonymy:
Koelreuteria formosana, Koelreuteria henryi

Common Synonymy:
Chinese rain tree, flame gold

Cold Hardiness Zone: 9b     View the UK and US zone maps

Koelreuteria elegans subsp. formosana Information

Identification:
Deciduous trees, 15-17 m tall or higher. Branches ridged, pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, with petiole ca. 50 cm; leaflets 5-13; petiolules 2-2.5 cm; blades oblong-ovate, 6-8 × 2.5-3 cm, varied in shape and size, subleathery, abaxially glabrous or only barbate at vein axils, base extremely oblique, margin slightly incurved serrate or nearly entire below middle, apex long acuminate to caudate. Thyrses terminal, large, ca. 25 cm; branches and pedicels pubescent. Flowering in autumn, inflorescence of terminal panicle to 25 cm long, yellow. Sepals 5, oval or ovate-triangular, ciliate. Petals 5, lanceolate or oblong, with 2-lobed, tuberculate toothed scale, claw hairy. Stamens 7 or 8; filaments hairy. Capsules inflated, ellipsoid, 3-ridged, ca. 4 cm; carpels subcordiform, abaxially reticulate veined, adaxially shiny. Seeds black, globose, ca. 5 mm in diam.

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