Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Aleurites moluccana

名稱:
石栗

Common Name:
Candlenut tree

俗名:
燭果樹，油桃

Family Name:
Euphorbiaceae

科屬:
大戟科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; originated from the provinces of South China, and tropical and subtropical Asia.

原產地:

外來；產自中國南部省份，以及亞洲熱帶及亞熱帶地區。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
18m

高度:
18米

Stems:
Bark of trunk in deep-grey

莖:
主幹樹皮深灰色

Leaf:

Palmately lobed, shallowly 3 to 5 lobed or entire, shaped like a shield. Adaxially dark green, abaxially pale green, with brownish indumentum, papery in texture. Apex of petiole with a pair of discoid glands, like a pair of eyes.

葉:

掌狀淺裂，3至5淺裂或不裂，形如盾牌。葉面深綠色，葉底淺綠色，被毛帶褐色，質地紙質。葉柄頂端有一對盤狀的腺體，有如眼睛。

Flower:

• Milky white to milky yellow. Unisexual flowers, monoecious.
• Flowering: Apr - Oct

花:

• 乳白色至乳黃色，單性花，雌雄同株。
• 花期: 4 - 10月

Fruit:

• Drupe subglobose, greyish brown, with 1 to 2 seed(s)
• Fruiting: Oct - Dec

果實:

• 核果，近球狀，灰褐色，內有1至2顆種子。
• 果期: 10 - 12月