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.

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