1. 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
   "The Cercidiphyllum japonicum's leaves smell like cotton candy in fall";
   - katsura tree

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: Cercidiphyllum, genus Cercidiphyllum

Encyclopedia: Cercidiphyllum japonicum