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Wood - Construction: The soft, light wood is easy to work with, finding use in boxes and light construction. Wood - Fuelwood: It's a valuable firewood source. Dye - The bark is prized for dyeing and tanning. Eco-restoration - This tree plays a vital role in preventing landslides.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
It thrives in subtropical highlands colonizing stream banks, ravines, and drier forests at altitudes of 500-2600 m asl.
A pioneer species in reforestation; often one of the first trees to establish itself on disturbed or eroded land.
It is large deciduous tree, reaching up to 30 m tall.
Stem concists of easily peeling bark, which is dark green, and can become silvery-grey in the open.
Leaves are elliptic to ovate with rounded or shortly pointed tip. Margins are sometimes wavy. Nutlet has a narrow papery wing.
Male flowers are borne in slender catkins, up to 12 cm long. Female flowers are borne in avoid cone-like clusters, up to 1.5 cm long, which become woody.
Woody cones containing small, winged nutlets.
Flowering: October-December