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

Derived forms: katsura trees

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree

Part of: Cercidiphyllum, genus Cercidiphyllum

Encyclopedia: Katsura tree