#1870 most planted
Trochodendron aralioides
Wheel tree · also Bird-lime
Evergreen
16
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
4
cities
12 in
median trunk (30 cm, 16 measured)
2.4 yr
median age (63% have a planting date)
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Trochodendron aralioides, also known as the wheel tree, is a flowering evergreen tree native to Japan, southern Korea, and Taiwan. It grows in lower temperate montane mixed forests and broad-leaved evergreen forests.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 70.01%2.4 yr12 in
- 40.00%—12 in
- 30.00%—2.0 in
- 20.00%—13 in
Traits
- Foliage
- Evergreen
Trunk diameters across every city: median 12 in, mean 10 in, 90th percentile 16 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
- Nihonkai evergreen forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
- Taiheiyo evergreen forests
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
- Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests