Chinese Cork Tree - Phellodendron chinense

Chinese Cork Tree - Phellodendron chinense var. glabriusculum
Commonly known as 川黄檗 chuan huang bo in China, this tree's bark is used in various traditional herbal remedies.
Citrus or Rue Family: Rutaceae
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Chinese Cork Tree
Chinese cork foliage, bark, and persistent last-year fruit.

Chinese Cork Tree
This Morton Arboretum Chinese Cork specimen is 51 years old, grown from a graft.
Phellodendron chinense C. K. Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 126. 1907.
川黄檗 chuan huang bo

Trees to 15 m tall. Leaves 7-15-foliolate; rachis glabrous, thinly pubescent, or rust-colored tomentose; leaflet blades ovate-elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 8-15 × 3.5-6 cm, papery, base cuneate to attenuate and oblique, apex mucronate to acuminate. Inflorescences and infructescence ± compact, rachis, branches, and pedicels robust. Fruit subglobose to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Seeds 6-7 × 3-5 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Nov.
Found in mixed broad-leaved, open to dense forests; 800-1500(-3000) m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. [1]

Chinese Cork Tree Foliage

Chinese Cork Tree Bark
Cork Bark

Amur Cork Tree Fruit
Cork Tree Fruit

References

Flora of China, Phellodendron chinense