Japanese Photinia

Description

Photinia glabra, the Japanese photinia, is a species in the family Rosaceae. It is a tree of evergreen , reaching a size 3-5 m tall, rarely to 7 m high. The twigs of brown to grayish brown when young, grayish black, when old, glabrous, with scattered brown orbicular black lenticels ; buds closely ovate, 3-5 mm, scales dark brown, glabrous. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; The lamina initially reddish, elliptical, oblong or oblong-obovate, 5-9 × 2-4 cm, densely coriaceous, with 10-18 pairs of veins, both surfaces glabrous, the base cuneate, the apex acuminate. The inflorescences in corimbosterminal compounds, 6-11 cm x 7-12, with numerous flowers, rachis and glabrous pedicels. 5-8 mm pedicel. Flowers of 7-8 mm diam. Hipanto dome Triangular sepals, 1-1.5 mm, acute apex. Petals white, obovate, 2-3 mm. Stamens 20, almost as long or slightly shorter than the petals. Red fruit, obovate or ovoid, 5 mm, glabrous. Fl. April-May, fr. September October. It is located on slopes, in mixed forests, at an altitude of 500-800 meters in Anhui , Fujian , Guangdong , Guangxi , Guizhou , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangsu , Jiangxi , Sichuan , Yunnan , Zhejiang in China and in Japan , Burma and Thailand . y Photinia glabra was described by ( Carl Peter Thunberg ) Maxim. and published in Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg 19 (2): 178 , in 1873.