Vernicia fordii

Description from Flora of China Editorial Committee (2014): V. fordii is a deciduous tree, up to 10 m tall, monoecious, bark gray, nearly smooth, branches verticillate, stout, glabrous, prominently lenticellate. Petiole as long as leaf blade, glabrescent, with 2 compressed and sessile glands, leaf blade ovate, 5-18 ? 3-15 cm, puberulent when young, dark green and glabrous adaxially, gray-green and pubescent abaxially at maturity, base truncate to shallowly cordate, margin entire, rarely shallowly 1-3-fid, apex acute, palmate veins 5(-7). Inflorescences flat-topped paniculate cymes, appearing generally before new leaves, usually bisexual, calyx ca. 10 mm, 2(or 3)-fid, densely brown puberulent outside, petals obovate, 2-3 ? 1-1.5 cm, yellow at base, pink to purplish, pink-veined, base clawed, apex rounded, stamens 8-12, outer filaments free, inner filaments connate to below middle, ovary 3-5(-8)-locular, pubescent, styles 3-5(-8), bifid. Drupe subglobose, 4-6(-8) cm in diam., exocarp smooth, not grooved, 3- or 4(-8)-seeded. Seed coat woody.