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Castanopsis cuspidata (Japanese Chinquapin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Castanopsis cuspidata (Japanese Chinquapin; Japanese tsuburajii, 円椎) is a species of Castanopsis native to southern Japan and southern Korea. It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 20-30 m tall, related to beech and oak. The leaves are 5-9 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, leathery in texture, with an entire or irregularly toothed margin. It grows in woods and ravines, especially near the sea. The cotyledon of the nut is eaten boiled or roasted. Its dead wood serves as host to many mushroom types, including the shiitake, which literally means Castanopsis mushroom.
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Infraspecies

Castanopsis cuspidata cuspidata
Castanopsis cuspidata f. cuspidata
Castanopsis cuspidata f. sessilis
Castanopsis cuspidata sessilis

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Monoecious
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Pollinators [2]  Wind, Midges
Scent [2]  The catkins have an unpleasant hawthorn-like smell to attract midges for their pollination.
Structure [2]  Tree
Height [2]  82 feet (25 m)
Width [2]  33 feet (10 m)
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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Callosciurus erythraeus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), PETER W. W. LURZ, VIRGINIA HAYSSEN, KIMBERLY GEISSLER, AND SANDRO BERTOLINO, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 45(902):60–74 (2013)
♦ 6SEASONAL CHANGES IN THE DIET OF JAPANESE GIANT FLYING SQUIRRELS IN RELATION TO REPRODUCTION, Takeo Kawamichi, Journal of Mammalogy, 78(1):204-212, 1997
♦ 7FOOD AVAILABILITY AND FOOD HABITS OF INDIAN GIANT FLYING SQUIRRELS (PETAURISTA PHILIPPENSIS) IN TAIWAN, CHI-CHIEN KUO AND LING-LING LEE, Journal of Mammalogy, 84(4):1330-1340, 2003
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0