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 apex and thin apex , 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. The edge of the wing petals and keel petals are slightly purple; 10 stamens, unequal length. Pods are fleshy, beaded, 2.5-20 cm long, glabrous, undivided; seeds 1-15, kidney-shaped. Flower and fruit period from June to November.
Mainly sowing and breeding, cuttings can also be used. Spring sowing, because the seed coat has a tightly integrated fence layer and poor water permeability, before sowing, soak the seeds with water at an initial temperature of 85-90 degrees for 24 hours, and then treat the remaining hard seeds 1-2 times. The seeds can be sown by swelling with water. Sow row spacing is 20-25 cm, cover soil thickness is 1.5-2 cm, sowing amount per mu is 8-10 kg, seedlings are unearthed in 7-10 days, and the seedling period is reasonable and densely planted to prevent bending of the trunk. Generally, 6-8 seedlings per meter are left. Annual seedlings are more than 1 meter tall. You can also transplant the fixed seedlings after raising seedlings in a concentrated nutrient bowl in early spring.
