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Staphylea

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Staphyleaceae

Higher classification
  
Staphyleaceae

Order
  
Crossosomatales

Scientific name
  
Staphylea

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Staphylea pinnata, Staphyleaceae, Staphylea colchica, Staphylea trifolia, Stephanandra

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Staphylea, or bladdernut, is a small genus of 10 or 11 species of flowering plants in the family Staphyleaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The highest species diversity is in China, where four species occur.

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They are large shrubs, occasionally small trees, growing to 2-5 m tall. The leaves are deciduous, arranged in opposite pairs, and pinnate, usually with three leaflets, but 3-7 in S. pinnata and 3-5 in S. colchica. The flowers are produced in drooping terminal panicles 5-10 cm long, with 5-15 flowers on each panicle; the individual flowers are about 1 cm long, with the five sepals and petals similar in size and in their white or pale pink colour. The fruit is an inflated papery two- or three-lobed capsule 3-10 cm long, containing a few small nut-like seeds.

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Species
  • Staphylea bolanderi (Sierra bladdernut). Western North America.
  • Staphylea bumalda (Japanese bladdernut). Eastern Asia.
  • Staphylea colchica (Colchis bladdernut, jonjoli). Eastern Europe.
  • Staphylea emodi (Himalayan bladdernut). Himalaya.
  • Staphylea forrestii. China.
  • Staphylea holocarpa. China.
  • Staphylea pinnata (European bladdernut). Europe.
  • Staphylea pringlei. Mexico.
  • Staphylea shweliensis. China.
  • Staphylea trifolia (American bladdernut). Eastern North America.

  • Staphylea US Wildflower American Bladdernut Staphylea trifolia

    Some botanists include the closely related genus Turpinia in Staphylea.

    Staphylea cholchica bluddernut


    Cultivation and uses

    Staphylea STAPHYLEA colchica Steven Pflanzen null Bruns Site

    Several species are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers and peculiar bladder-like fruit. The popular Staphylea × elegans is a hybrid of unknown origin, probably between S. colchica and S. pinnata.

    Staphylea Staphylea colchica Bladdernut PFAF Plant Database

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    References

    Staphylea Wikipedia