Deciduous tree, dioecious, up to 20 m in height, very irregular in shape. Trunk \u00b1 straight and smooth, sometimes very tortuous and may reach exceptionally up to 1 m in diameter. Bark greyish-whitish. Branches pubescent when young, turning glabrous, yellowish-brown. Buds with 2 scales, slightly or not at all viscous, glabrescent. Leaves alternate, glaucous, concolourous, glabrous, longly petiolate, very polymorphous. In young trees leaves are commonly lanceolate, entire, sometimes toothed in the upper half. In adult trees, especially towards the top, the leaves are usually reniform, sometimes wider than long, entire in the lower half and irregularly dentate-lobulate in the upper half. Frequently there are also \u00b1 rhomboid leaves, entire in the lower half and \u00b1 coarsely dentate towards the apex. Flowers in pendant aments, short, forming \u00b1 dense racemes. Flowers of male aments with short pedicels (2-4 mm), disk membranous, glabrous and caducous, with 12-14 stamens with purple anthers. Flowers of female aments with pedicels much longer (8-12 mm), disk similar to male flowers and ovary ending in 3 large purple stigmas. Fruit an ovoid-elongated capsule, smooth, coriaceous, dehiscent into 2-3 valves, containing numerous seeds with whitish hairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12198","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n