Fast-growing Chinese Sophora japo
nica is a kind of Chinese Sophora japo
nica that is grafted, belo
nging to the arbor of the butterfly flower family. Chinese Pagoda is a good greening tree species, often used as garden shade trees and street trees, and has a certain eco
nomic value and medicinal value.
Chinese Sophora is a deciduous tree, 6-25 meters high, with dark gray dry bark, green branchlets, and obvious lenticels. The pinnate compound leaf is 15-25 cm long; the leaf shaft is hairy, and the base is enlarged; the leaflets are 9-15 pieces, ovoid and oblong, 2.5-7.5 cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, with acuminate tips and thin protuberances , Broadly wedge-shaped at the base, off-white underneath, sparsely pubescent. The panicle is terminal; the calyx is bell-shaped with 5 small teeth; the corolla is milky white, the flag petal is broad and heart-shaped, has short claws, and has purple veins. Pods are fleshy, beaded, 2.5-20 cm long, glabrous, undivided; seeds 1-15, kidney-shaped. Flower and fruit period from June to November.
