{"id":15475,"date":"2023-08-10T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/maackia_amurensis_amur_maackia\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:50:35","slug":"maackiaamurensis","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/maackiaamurensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Maackia amurensis – Amur maackia"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is a small tree with smooth grey branches, providing pleasure in spring with its young silvery-downy leaves and in July with its flowers. Erect racemes of greenish-white flowers are pleasantly scented and attract bees. The autumn colour is an unusual yellow-brown.<\/p>\n

Amur maackia is native to eastern Asia where it grows in the forests of moist, rich, valley slopes and along the rivers, together with Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis<\/em>) and broadleaf trees. It looks its best in open sunny spots but being from a continental climate it comes into leaf early, so during spring frosts it benefits from the light shade of a protective canopy. Like other leguminous plants the roots can fix nitrogen direct from the atmosphere and the fallen leaves improve the soil.<\/p>\n

It is found only in botanic collections such as Mustila, where it has grown successfully for a century. In 1995 the provenance received by the Arboretum from the \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 Far East seems to be even hardier and flowers a couple of weeks earlier than the older trees. Maackia is a fine example of how, within the same species, success and behaviour varies with provenance.<\/p>\n