Easily confused with other: Beech Trees [a plant of similar name]

Lookee-Likees : Flower

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature : The extremely spiny golf-ball-sized fruit with edible (after cooking) Sweet Chestnut within.

No relation to : Horse-Chestnut [trees with a similar name].

An ELLAGITANNIN Tellimagrandin II (aka Eugeniin) is an Ellagitannin. At its heart is a glucose sugar surrounded by five galoyl units, the two on the upper right being joined by a bridging bond. It is almost identical to the ellagitannin Potentillin, the only difference being that it lacks the bond joining the two lowest galoyl groups. It is present also in the non-native Clove plant (Syzygium aromaticum). The dimer of Tellimagrandin II is Cornusiin E which is found in Fringe Cups (Tellima grandiflora), from which it obviously derives its name. Cornusiin E parallels the dimer of Potentillin called Agrimoniin, the two are almost identical, apart from two missing bridging bonds between the galoyl groups at the bottom of the diagram.

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