#1985 most planted
Staphylea pinnata
European bladdernut · also Bladdernut, Anthony nut, Bladder nut
Deciduous
13
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
6
cities
6.0 in
median trunk (15 cm, 9 measured)
23 yr
median age (54% have a planting date)
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Staphylea pinnata is a shrub or small deciduous tree. It produces white to pink bell-shaped flowers and distinctive inflated, papery fruit capsules. It is valued as an ornamental species.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 60.01%23 yr6.0 in
- 30.00%——
- 10.00%—14 in
- 10.00%——
- 10.00%—3.8 in
- 10.00%—2.0 in
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- High
- Blooms
- Mar, Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 6.0 in, mean 6.2 in, 90th percentile 7.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Appenine deciduous montane forests
- Balkan mixed forests
- Caucasus mixed forests
- Central European mixed forests
- Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
- East European forest steppe
- European Atlantic mixed forests
Other Staphylea in the catalogue
3 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
