Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Delonix regia (Bojer ex Hook.) Raf.

名稱:
鳳凰木

Common Name:
Flame Tree, Flame of the Forest

俗名:
鳳凰花，紅花楹，火樹

Family Name:
Caesalpiniaceae

科屬:
蘇木科

Habit:
Deciduous tree

習性:
落葉喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; Madagascar.

原產地:

外來；馬達加斯加。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 20m tall

高度:
可高達20米

Stems:
Bark of trunk rough, greyish brown. Branchlets with obvious lenticels.

莖:
主幹樹皮粗糙，灰褐色。小枝具明顯的皮孔。

Leaf:

Even-bipinnately compound. Pinnae 15 to 20 pairs, opposite, with 10 to 25 pairs of oblong leaflets on each pinna, crowded and opposite. The leaf looks like a feather of birds.

葉:

二回偶數羽狀複葉，羽片15至20對，對生，每片羽片上有長圓形的小葉10至25對，密集地對生。形態有如雀鳥的羽毛。

Flower:

• Bright scarlet to orange-red. Petals 5, spoon-like. The upper petal shows conspicuous yellowish and whitish patches.
• Flowering: Jun - Jul

花:

• 猩紅色至橙紅色。花瓣5塊，像匙羹，最上方的花瓣具明顯的黃白色斑紋。
• 花期: 6 - 7月

Fruit:

• Legume, huge, slightly curved. Its length as long as an arm of human. Blackish brown, with 20 to 40 seeds.
• Fruiting: Aug - Oct

果實:

• 莢果，巨型，稍彎曲，長度有如人的手臂，黑褐色，內含種子20至40顆。
• 果期: 8 - 10月