Amur Cork Tree

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

N. China, Manchuria and Japan

Location

Cornell Class of 1923 Flowering Tree Collection, Beech Collection

Source of plant

Lawson Wholesale Nursery, Schichtel's Nursery, Schichtel's Nursery

Description

Broad spreading tree with a short trunk and an open, rounded crown of a few large, often horizontallyarranged branches; plants reach 30' to 45' in height with an equal or greater spread. Fall color yellow orbronzy yellow, persisting only briefly. Flowers dioecious, yellowish-green, borne in 2" to 3 1/2" longpanicles in late May to early June, not showy. Fruit a subglobose, black, 1/2" to 3/5" diameter drupe withstrong oder when bruised, ripening in October and persisting into the winter. Bark on older trunksridged and furrowed into a cork-like pattern, gray-brown; a very beautiful and unusual pattern, although it does not develop until old age.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3

Special characteristics

growth habit, bark, winter interest, invasive