What trees produces buds.? and Trochodendron aralioides #2

What trees produces buds.?

At my park there is a tree that has these weed bud looking things hanging from stems. I want to know what the thing is what the tree is called and is the bud like thing tokeable.


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Answer by Thomas D
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Trochodendron aralioides #2


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Trochendraceae - Taiwan, southern Korea and southern Japan
Wheel Tree, Japanese Wheel Tree
Shown: Detail of inflorescence

"Trochodendron aralioides is a flowering plant, the sole species in the genus Trochodendron. It is also often considered the sole species in the family Trochodendraceae, though some botanists include the very distinct genus Tetracentron in the same family. Trochodendron is native to southern Japan, southern Korea and Taiwan; it has no widely used common name in English, though is sometimes colloquially called "wheel tree".

"It is an evergreen tree or large shrub growing to 20 m tall. The leaves are borne in tight spirals at the apex of the years' growth, each leaf leathery dark green, simple broad lanceolate, 6-14 cm long and 3-8 cm broad, with a crenate margin. The flowers are produced 10-20 together in a racemose cyme 5-13 cm diameter; each flower is 15-18 mm diameter, yellowish green, without petals, but with a conspicuous ring of 40-70 stamens surrounding the 4-11 carpels. The fruit is 2 cm diameter, woody, star-shaped, composed of 4-11 follicles, each follicle containing several seeds." (Wikipedia)

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Photographed in U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley - Berkeley, California

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