Meliosma parviflora seed

LATIN NAME: Meliosma parviflora

COMMON NAME: Small-Flowered Meliosma

The small-flowered meliosma is a handsome, upright, spreading, deciduous tree of the warm forests, and its fine, oval or lance-shaped, pointed leaves and its many small, white, fragrant flowers in the long, upright, branching clusters, followed by the small, round, black fruits, have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, spreading, deciduous tree, reaching up to twenty metres or more, with the upright, branching trunk bearing the alternate, oval or lance-shaped, pointed, toothed leaves and, through the early summer, the many small, white, fragrant flowers in the long, upright, branching clusters, followed by the small, round, black, single-seeded fruits. It is a species of the flowering tree in the sabia family, and it is native to the warm forests of the eastern Asia, while it is treasured for its fine, white, fragrant flower clusters, and it is known as the small-flowered meliosma.

In the sabia family it is the white, fragrant-flowered tree of the warm forests, a species whose long clusters of the small flowers hum with the bees of the early summer.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The small-flowered meliosma appears in the forest-ecology papers of the eastern Asia as a fine subject of the warm forest study, and the botanists have mapped its place in the sabia family and the regional flora. The insect ecologists have counted the bees and the many insects on the long clusters of the small, white, fragrant flowers, and the horticulturists have grown the spreading, many-flowered form for the garden and the park. It is a tree of the generous, bee-feeding kind, and the growers of the warm-region trees keep it in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the garden and the park, the small-flowered meliosma is the white, fragrant tree of the early summer. Its long clusters of the small flowers feed the bees, its black fruits feed the birds, and the spreading, leafy crown gives the garden a fine shade. It is treasured for the long, fragrant flower clusters, and it grows well in the rich, moist, well-drained ground of the sheltered spot. White, fragrant and bee-feeding.

These seeds are best sown fresh — press them at a shallow depth into pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will soon show.