Is the Chinese hackberry an evergreen or a deciduous tree species?
The Chinese hackberry is a tree of economic value, with strong resistance to toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and chlorine; its stem bark is a raw material for papermaking and artificial cotton; its fruit is pressed for oil to make lubricant; its wood is hard and can be used for industrial timber, so is the Chinese hackberry evergreen or deciduous?
1. Is the Chinese hackberry evergreen or deciduous?
The Chinese hackberry is actually a deciduous tree, a plant of the genus Celtis in the family Cannabaceae (formerly Ulmaceae) of the order Rosales, reaching up to 20 m in height. The bark is smooth and gray. One-year-old branches are densely hairy. The leaves are alternate, leathery, broadly ovate to narrowly ovate, 3-10 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide. The flowers are polygamous (bisexual and unisexual flowers on the same tree), with 1-3 borne in the leaf axils of the current year's branches. The drupe is solitary or in pairs, nearly spherical, red-brown when ripe, and the stone has pits and raised ribs. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is September-November.
2. Main values
1. Medicinal: The branches, leaves, roots and bark of the Chinese hackberry are all good medicinal materials. It can reduce swelling and relieve pain, treat burns, and can also be used to treat hives and other conditions. For everyday colds, the rhizome of the Chinese hackberry can also be taken, and the cold symptoms will be relieved.
2. Industrial: The Chinese hackberry has a very wide range of uses in industry. Its rhizome can be made into artificial cotton, its fruit can be pressed for lubricant, its branches and trunk can be made into various kinds of furniture, and its stem bark can also be made into artificial fiber.
3. Landscaping: The Chinese hackberry has a full and broad crown and dense, luxuriant shade, making it suitable as a shade tree in parks, courtyards, streets and along highways. It is a very good landscaping tree species and can also be used for windbreaks and embankment stabilization. The Chinese hackberry has extremely strong adaptability and a long lifespan, and because its overall form is quaint and distinctive, it is a bonsai and street tree species that people love and accept, planted on lawns, in open ground or along both sides of streets. Moreover, under modern environmental conditions, it has extremely strong adsorption capacity for toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and chlorine, and also has extremely strong dust-retaining capacity, with obvious greening effects, and at the same time its cost is low, so it has been widely used in cities, industrial and mining areas, rural areas and elsewhere.
The Chinese hackberry has relatively high economic value and is distributed in most areas of our country, making it a relatively common tree.