English: Bee-bee tree; Korean evodia.
Synonym: Tetradium hupehensis; Euodia hupehensis
Region: temperate to tropical east Asia. China.
Habitat: hardy; loves the sun and a permeable soil, thrives on clay.
Use: attractive, fantastic bee plant.
Use: fantastic bee plant.
BotanyTree: 15 m high, wide.
Stem: bark smooth, grey bark like beech.
Leaves: deciduous; glossy; dark green, yellow-green in autumn; pinnate; like leaves of an ash tree.
Inflorescence: richly flowering panicles.
Flowers: small, white; sepals 5, fused, form a bowl; stamens form a ring around the style with white hairy stigma; sweet-smelling; nectars at the base, rich in nectar, pollen; flowering in summer.
Pollination: by bees.
Fruit: small, red-to-black berries; clusters of seeds.
Seeds: bright red capsules, expose shiny black buckshot seeds
Dispersion: by birds.
TaxonomyFormerly included in the related genus Euodia, sometimes written "Evodia", known as Euodia, Evodia, or Bee bee tree.
Tetradium is also closely related to Melicope and is sometimes included within it. Melicope elleryana is sometimes referred to as Evodia, or Euodia.