Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Ficus benjamina L.

名稱:
垂葉榕

Common Name:
Weeping fig, Benjamin tree

俗名:
垂葉榕，垂榕，白榕

Family Name:
Moraceae

科屬:
桑科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; South to Southwest China, and South Asia to Australia.

原產地:

外來；中國南部至西南部，及亞洲南部至澳洲。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 20m tall

高度:
可高達20米

Stems:
Bark of trunk grey to greyish white. Old branches always bear pendulous aerial roots, which lignify after reaching the ground, and grows into new supporting branches. Branchlets pendulous.

莖:
主幹樹皮灰白色。
老枝常具下垂氣根，到達地面後木質化，生長成新的支撐枝幹。小枝下垂。

Leaf:

Thinly leathery, ovate to ovate-elliptic, shiny and smooth, with abruptly acuminate apex. Lateral veins anastomosing (connected) at margins. Stipule lanceolate, caducous, can be seen at the apex of young branchlets.

葉:

薄革質，卵形至卵狀橢圓形，光滑，頂端具短漸尖，側脈在葉的邊緣形成網結。托葉披針形，早落，多見於嫩枝頂部。

Flower:

• Fig (as hypanthodium structurally), globose to compressed-globose, paired or solitary
  
• Flowering: Sep - Nov

花:

• 無花果（結構為隱頭花序），球狀至扁球狀，成對或單生
• 花期: 9 - 11月

Fruit:

• Fig (as syconium with numerous achenes structurally). Yellow, orange to purplish red when mature, smooth
• Fruiting: Sep - Nov

果實:

• 榕果（結構為多數瘦果組成的隱頭果序），細小，成熟後為紅色或金黃色
• 果期: 9 - 11月