Celtis bungeana seed

LATIN NAME: Celtis bungeana

COMMON NAME: Bunge’s Hackberry

The Bunge’s hackberry is a handsome, upright, rounded, deciduous tree of the warm places, and its fine, oval or lance-shaped, sharply toothed leaves and its small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, orange or dark, fleshy drupes, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, rounded, deciduous tree, reaching up to twenty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the alternate, oval or lance-shaped, pointed, sharply toothed leaves and, through the late spring, the small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, orange or dark, fleshy, single-seeded drupes. It is a species of the flowering tree in the hemp family, and it is native to the warm places of the northern China and the surrounding regions, while it is treasured for its fine, dense, rounded form, and it is known as the Bunge’s hackberry.

In the hemp family it is the dense, rounded hackberry of the warm north, a tree whose tough ways and small, sweet drupes have made it a friend of the streets and the birds.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Bunge’s hackberry appears in the warm-region tree papers of the north, and the botanists have mapped its place in the hemp family and the regional flora. The soil scientists have studied the deep, tough roots that hold the dry, loose ground, and the wildlife ecologists have watched the birds come to the small, fleshy drupes. It is a tree of the enduring, bird-feeding kind, and the growers of the avenue and the park keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the avenue and the park, the Bunge’s hackberry is the dense, rounded tree of the dry ground. Its greenish flowers feed the small insects, its fleshy drupes feed the birds, and the rounded, leafy crown gives the street and the garden a fine shade. It has served the avenue, the park and the dry garden, and it grows well in the moist, well-drained ground of the open, sunny spot. Dense, rounded and drought-hardy.

Press the fine drupes off the stems and give them a cold, damp rest in a bag of moist sand in the fridge, then sow the clean seeds shallowly in pots of loamy, free-draining soil, keep them moist and set the pots in a bright, sheltered spot, and they’ll come along in their own time.