Celtis sinensis seed

LATIN NAME: Celtis sinensis

COMMON NAME: Chinese Hackberry

The Chinese hackberry is a handsome, upright, round-headed, deciduous tree of the warm woodlands, and its fine, oval, pointed, toothed leaves and its small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, orange or dark-purple, berry-like fruits, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, round-headed, deciduous tree, reaching up to twenty metres or so, with the upright, branching trunk bearing the alternate, oval, pointed, sharply toothed, rough leaves and, through the spring, the small, inconspicuous, greenish flowers, followed by the small, round, orange or dark-purple, berry-like drupes of the single hard seed. It is a species of the flowering tree in the hemp family, and it is native to the warm woodlands of the eastern Asia, while it is prized for its fine, tough, adaptable form, and it is known as the Chinese hackberry.

In the hemp family it is the round-headed shade tree of the eastern woodlands, a tough, adaptable tree that takes the street and the park in its stride.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Chinese hackberry turns up in the urban-tree research of the eastern Asia as a fine subject of the street and the woodland study, and the botanists have mapped its place in the hemp family and the warm woodland flora. The wildlife ecologists have watched the autumn birds come to the small, round, orange or dark-purple fruits, and the foresters and the horticulturists have studied the tough, round-headed growth that makes it a valued tree of the street and the garden. It is a tree that asks little and gives shade, fruit and cover, and the growers of the urban trees keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the park and the street, the Chinese hackberry is the round-headed tree that never complains. Its small flowers feed the insects, its orange or dark-purple fruits feed the birds of the autumn, and the round-headed crown gives the garden fine shade and shelter. The tough, adaptable growth has made it a valued tree of the street and the park of the many lands, and it grows well in the moist, well-drained ground of the open spot. Round-headed, tough and bird-feeding.

Put the seeds into a bag of damp sand and keep it chilled in the fridge through a spell of cold, then sow them shallowly in pots of loamy, free-draining soil, keep them moist and set the pots in a bright, open spot, and they’ll come up steadily.