Description
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Trees of small or medium size, 4-7 m. Leaves entire, leathery, kidney shaped, with grey coating. Petiole cylindrical. Young leaves densely pubescent. Heat and salt resistant, very ornamental. Z 6 (5). New.
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Description
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Trees to 10(-20) m tall; bark grayish yellow; crown spreading. Sprouts densely gray tomentulose; branchlets gray tomentulose. Leaves of short branchlets with petiole 2-3 cm, slightly compressed; leaf blade reniform, 2-4 × 3-6 cm, both surfaces grayish blue, densely tomentulose, margin entire or apex with 2 or 3 loose teeth. Sprouts with leaf blade elliptic, both surfaces tomentose. Fruiting catkin 5-6 cm; rachis tomentulose. Capsule long ovoid, 5-10 mm, tomentulose, 2- or 3-valved, stipitate. Fl. May, fr. Jul-Aug.
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Distribution
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Central Asia (basin of the Syr-Darya and Amy-Darya rivers, Pamiro Alay, mountains of Turkmenia). On sandy, often saline soil, along streams in desert.
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Distribution
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Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan; SW Asia]
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Synonym
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Balsamiflua pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura; Turanga pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura.
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