Alnus pendula			provinance:
The best and most unusual of alders in foliage - the leaves corrugated by such a high number of veins as mentioned above. This is slow growing  and the twigs rather stiffly held, crowded with thin brown cylindrical catkins which droop most attractively when they expand in spring  It is not actually very pendulous if it all, in fact somewhat upright; and the name probably has some bearing on the appearance of the spring catkins. It is a neat shrub, very difficult to coerce into tree shape, and even then very quirky with crossing branches, losing its leaves early. In the wild in northern Japan it is surprisingly common as an occasional in disturbed areas.
BARK		FOLIAGE		FLOWERS/FRUITS
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