Thuja koraiensis

Korean arborvitae (Thuja koraiensis )

The Korean arborvitae (Thuja koraiensis, Syn: Thuja odorata ), also called the Tree of Life or Korea Korea Thuja, is a flowering plant in the genus of living trees (Thuja ) from the family of the cypress family ( Cupressaceae ).

Dissemination

The natural range of the Korean Tree of Life are the mountains of Korea, where he mostly shrubby growing. In Central Europe it is hardy and is used as an open and short, shade tolerant ornamental shrub.

Description

The Korean arborvitae is reached an evergreen shrub or small tree, the plant height of ten meters and trunk diameter of 80 centimeters. The bark is reddish- brown. The leaves are scale-like. Particularly characteristic are the white undersides of twigs. The Korean life tree is monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). The male cones are purple, hemispherical and two to three millimeters in size. The female cones are dark brown at maturity and are seven to ten millimeters long and have a diameter of six to eight millimeters. The approximately four millimeters long and 1.5 millimeters wide seeds have a 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide wings. Pollination is in May and the seeds ripen in September of the same year.