Amur Cork Tree

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.