Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Bauhinia variegata

名稱:
宮粉羊蹄甲

Common Name:
Camel’s foot tree

俗名:
羊蹄甲，彎葉樹

Family Name:
Caesalpiniaceae

科屬:
蘇木科

Habit:
Deciduous tree

習性:
落葉喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; South China, native to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. Also distributed in Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar and India.

原產地:

外來；中國南部，原生於雲南的西雙版納。馬來西亞、越南、老撾、泰國、緬甸及印度亦有分佈。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 15m tall

高度:
可高達15米

Stems:
Bark of trunk dark brownish, relatively smooth. Branches spreading, crooked in zigzag shape.

莖:
主幹樹皮暗褐色，較平滑。樹枝開展，呈之字形屈曲。

Leaf:

Subleathery, broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline, base cordate to truncate, shallowly bilobed at the apex. Apex of lobes obtuse or comparatively pointed. Shaped like sheep hoof.

葉:

近革質，外型近圓形至闊心形，葉基心形，葉端2淺裂，裂片頂端鈍圓，形狀猶如羊的蹄部。

Flower:

• Petals 5, subequal, obovate to oblanceolate, violet or paler. The upper petal is comparatively broader with conspicuous dark purple and yellowish green stripes. Usually flowering prior to leaf emergence.
• Flowering: Mar

花:

• 花瓣5片，近等大，倒卵形至倒披針形，紫紅色或較淡，最上方的花瓣較闊，具明顯的暗紫色及黃綠色條紋。花常在新葉長出前盛放。
• 花期: 3月

Fruit:

• Legume, blackish brown when mature, strap-shaped, flattened.
• Fruiting: Apr

果實:

• 莢果，成熟時黑褐色，扁平帶狀
• 果期: 4月