Fast-growing Chinese Sophora
Fast-growing Chinese Sophora japonica is a kind of Chinese Sophora japonica that is grafted, belonging to the butterfly flower family tree plant. Chinese locust tree is a good greening tree species, often used as garden shade trees and street trees, and has certain economic value and medicinal value.
Morphological characteristics:
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-shaped and oblong, 2.5-7.5 cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, with acuminate tip and thin projection , 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: June to November.
Growth environment:
Generally, grafted trees have circular protrusions at the roots, and the bark color and texture of the upper and lower protrusions are different. The branches at the top of the crown of the fast-growing locust tree are generally light green or yellow. The most obvious is that there are fewer white spots on the branches. The dark green and dense white spots are generally ordinary Chinese locust, but the conditions vary according to different regions. If the bark is planted densely, it is usually because of covering. The color and texture of the bark are also different. The fast-growing bark is generally yellow or green, with fine and white texture and smaller leaves. Fast-growing wood is brittle. Generally, the seeds of Chinese Sophora japonica are bought and grafted.
