Japanese or ChineseHackberry         SEL-tis (KEL-tis) si-NEN-sis

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, 40-60 ft (12-20 m) tall.  Bark smooth, gray.  Leaves simple, alternate, variable, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 4-11 × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base rounded, obtuse, or truncate, margin serrate except toward the base, tip pointed, dark above, duller below, veins reticulate, petiole about 1 cm; yellow leaf fall color.  Fruit dark orange when ripe, nearly spherical, 5-7 mm in diam., contains a single white seed.
• Sun to partial shade.  Soil adaptable.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5      Native to China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.
• Caution: can become an invasive weed in some environments.  It is naturalized throughout most of southeast Queensland, Australia.