katsura tree

Noun

1.

katsura tree - rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn Synonyms: Cercidiphyllum japonicum

angiospermous tree, Cercidiphyllum, Cercidiphyllum japonicum, flowering tree, genus Cercidiphyllum