Styrax platanifolius

Shrubs, to 6 m, not suckering from roots. Leaves: petiole 6–20 mm; blade with 5–6 secondary veins, depressed-orbiculate or broadly ovate, 4.5–9(–12) × 4.2–9(–11.5) cm, margins entire, coarsely toothed, or 3-lobed, longest arms of abaxial hairs to 1 mm. False-terminal inflorescences 2–7-flowered or solitary flower, 2–5 cm; axillary flowers absent. Pedicels 4–9 mm, 1.3–2.3 times as long as calyx. Flowers: calyx 3–5(–6) × 4.5–5.5 mm; corolla 12–21 mm, tube 3–4 mm, lobes 5–6, imbricate in bud, slightly reflexed, elliptic, 11–18 × 3–7 mm; filaments connate 1–6 mm beyond adnation to corolla. Capsules globose, 7–10 × 7–11 mm (broader when 2–3-seeded), grayish white stellate-pubescent, dehiscent nearly or completely to proximal end, broadly exposing seed(s); fruit wall 0.3–0.5 mm thick.

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Styrax Platanifolius

Styrax platanifolius

Gallery

Share With Your Friends

How to Grow

Characteristics

More Info

Taxonomy