Amur cork tree seeds

Amur cork tree / Phellodendron amurense

Dioecious, perennial and deciduous tree, which has an unusually beautiful openwork crown with feathery leaves. The tree is 25-28 meters in height, and in diameter it can reach 1 meter. Velvet leaves have a specific aroma that can be easily felt if you simply rub them in your hands. The trunk of the tree has a cork soft coating - the bark, which is velvety to the touch, light gray in color and has wrinkles.

This plant has pinnate leaves with 3-6 pairs of petiolate leaflets. These leaflets are lanceolate, they begin to lengthen towards the top.

Each sheet of velvet contains from 10 flavonoids, various vitamins, tannins and essential oil. The phytoncides contained in the leaves have an antimicrobial effect, and the essential oil is used as not only an antimicrobial agent, but it also has antiseptic and anthelmintic properties.

The flowers of the plant are small, unisexual, which are collected in an inflorescence. Greenish flower petals. The fruits of Amur velvet are black in color, look like a ball, and shine a little.

Velvet blooms from the beginning of summer, and its fruits ripen from late summer to early autumn.

Amur velvet is a plant that is demanding on fertility and soil moisture. This tree is wind and drought tolerant, and its root system is very strong, reaching deep into the soil.

Velvet can easily endure the winter, and even a transplant is unimportant to him.

This plant reproduces only by seeds that have just been collected. If sowing is planned for spring, then seeds must be stratified within three months before sowing. Seeds will germinate for about a year.

The name can be pronounced like the Amur cork tree.