Scientific Name: Meliosma pinnata var. oldhamii
Common Name: meliosma
Family Name: Sabiaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8b: (-9.4 to -7 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 5 - 7m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Panicle, White, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Drupe, Red, Dark-red, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
This deciduous tree is upright when young, later spreading, with dark green pinnate leaves with obovate leaflets; panicles of white flowers in early summer; drupes small, reddish-black. Winter ID: buds rounded, fuzzy, brown; leaf scars mostly large, rounded.