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Hardy Rubber Tree
Eucommia ulmoides
Distinguishing Features: Rubbery sap when leaf is boken
- Type: Deciduous
- Form at maturity: 40 feet to 60 feet tall, width is greater than height, rounded habit
- Leaf: Alternate leaf arrangement, simple, deciduous leaves, 3 inch to 6 inch long, 1.5 inch to 3 inch wide, ovate leaf shape, serrate leaf margins, dark green leaf color
- Flower: Dioecious with insignificant apetulous greenish brown male flowers (in clusters) and female flowers (solitary) on separate trees
- Bark: Ridge and furrowed gray-brown bark
- Fruit or Seed: Brown, capsule-like with appressed wings, 1.5 inches long, notched apex
- Other:
Eucommia ulmoides form
