Platycarya strobilacea

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Platycarya strobilacea is a species of flowering plant in the family Juglandaceae, formerly treated as comprising the single living species in Platycarya, though a second living species Platycarya longzhouensis is now recognized. It is native to eastern Asia in China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan.Flora of China: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=125766 Platycarya]Flora of China: [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200006115 Platycarya strobilacea]

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It is a deciduous tree growing to 15 m tall. The leaves are usually pinnate, 15–30 cm long with 7–15 leaflets (rarely simple, or with up to 23 leaflets), the terminal leaflet present; the leaflets are 3–11 cm long and 1.5–3.5 cm broad. The flowers are catkins; the male (pollen) catkins are 2–15 cm long, the female catkins 2.5–5 cm long at maturity, hard and woody, superficially resembling a conifer cone with spirally arranged scales. Galloyl pedunculagin can be found in P. strobilacea.{{Cite journal |last1=Ueno |first1=T. |last2=Miyanaga |first2=T. |last3=Kawakami |first3=F. |last4=Okano |first4=M. |last5=Tanaka |first5=T. |last6=Ohtsuki |first6=K. | title = Further characterization of galloyl pedunculagin as an effective autophosphorylation inhibitor of C-kinase in vitro |journal=Biological & Pharmaceutical Bulletin |volume=25 |issue=11 |pages=1401–1404

|year=2002 |pmid=12419947 |doi=10.1248/bpb.25.1401 |doi-access=free|hdl=10069/8378 |hdl-access=free }}