Celtis julianae C. K. Schneid.

Plants with glabrous twigs and infructescences have been called var. calvescens. They do not seem to differ from the species in any other way.

Trees, to 30 m tall, deciduous. Bark gray. Branchlets dark brown, densely brownish yellow pubescent, rarely glabrous. Winter buds brown, 1-4 mm; scales at least inner ones brownish red hispid with appressed, parallel hairs. Petiole 0.7-1.5 cm, robust, densely golden pubescent, adaxially with a deep and narrow furrow; leaf blade broadly ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 6-13 × 3.5-8 cm, thickly papery, abaxially densely golden pubescent or rarely so only on veins, adaxially smooth or scabrous, base ± rounded and slightly oblique, margin finely toothed above middle to rarely subentire, teeth 13-23 on each side and less than 1 mm, apex shortly acuminate to caudate-acuminate; secondary veins 4-6 on each side of midvein. Flowers densely fascicled. Style branches linear, undivided. Infructescence solitary, stout, unbranched, densely brownish yellow pubescent, rarely glabrous, 1-3 cm, 1.5-2.5 × as long as subtending petiole. Drupe 1 per infructescence, golden to orange-yellow, ellipsoid to ± globose, 1.1-1.4 cm. Stone milky white, obovate to broadly obovate, compressed slightly on both sides, 7-9 mm, reticulately foveolate, base acute to slightly obtuse, 2-ribbed on apical half. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Sep-Oct.

S Anhui, Fujian, N Guangdong, Guizhou, S and W Henan, W Hubei, NW Hunan, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, N Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

* Forests, valleys, slopes; 300-1300 m.

Celtis julianae C. K. Schneider var. calvescens C. K. Schneider.

Celtis julianae, the Julian hackberry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cannabaceae, native to central and southern China. It is a fast-growing deciduous tree with gray bark reaching 80 ft (24 m). In the wild it is typically found growing in forested valleys and on slopes at 300 to 1,300 m (1,000 to 4,300 ft) above sea level.

It has found use as a street tree in a number of Chinese and French cities, and is commercially available in Europe and North America, but not in the United Kingdom.