Fast growing white wax

Fast-growing white wax has high ornamental value, so it is also very popular in the application of landscaping. Fast-growing white wax is an excellent tree species for wind and sand fixation, urban greening and beautification, and ecological construction. Its branches and leaves are luxuriant, the root system is developed, and it grows quickly. It is resistant to drought, waterlogging, cold, salt and alkali, wind, disease and insect pests, and has strong adaptability and dry shape. Straight, beautiful tree shape, normal growth on soil with less than 0.3% salt content.

Family and genus: Dicotyledon, Oleaceae, Ash genus

Distribution: From the north to the middle and south of Northeast China, through the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, to Guangdong and Guangxi in the south, Fujian to the southeast, and Gansu in the west. It likes to be moist, mostly distributed beside the caves and streams, and grows fast.

Morphology: deciduous tree, oval crown, yellowish brown bark. Branchlets smooth and glabrous. Odd-pinnate compound leaves, opposite, lobules 5-9, usually 7, ovoid or ovate-lanceolate, 3--10 cm long, acuminate at apex, narrow base, asymmetric, with teeth on margin And wavy teeth, glabrous on the surface, pubescent along the veins on the back. The panicles are born or terminally born on the branches of the current year, large and loose; the elliptical inflorescences are terminal and lateral, drooping, and bloom in summer. Calyx campanulate; no petals. Samaras are oblanceolate, 3--4 cm long.

Flowering period: March to May;

Fruiting period: ripe in October. Samaras are flat and lanceolate.