Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Ficus elastica Roxb. ex Hornem.

名稱:
印度橡樹

Common Name:
India-rubber tree, Caoutchuc

俗名:
印度榕，印度橡樹

Family Name:
Moraceae

科屬:
桑科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; Indonesia, Malaysia and Northern India.

原產地:

外來；印度東北部、印尼、不丹、尼泊爾、緬甸、馬來西亞。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 30m tall

高度:
可高達30米

Stems:
Bark of trunk greyish white, smooth. Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of main trunk 25 to 40 cm. Whole plant contains latex. Branchlets robust. Epiphytic when young.

莖:
主幹樹皮灰白色、平滑，胸徑25至40厘米。全株具乳汁。小枝粗壯。幼時附生。

Leaf:

Oblong to elliptic, thickly leathery, alternate. Dark green and glossy adaxially, pale green abaxially. Petiole robust. Stipule dark red, lanceolate, membranous, with obvious annular stipular scars after falling.

葉:

長圓形至橢圓形，厚革質，互生。葉面深綠色，有光澤，葉底淺綠色。葉柄粗壯。托葉深紅色，披針形，膜質，脫落後有明顯環狀托葉痕。

Flower:

• Monoecious. Fig (as hypanthodium structurally) axillary, paired, yellowish green.
• Flowering: Sep - Nov

花:

• 雌雄同株。無花果（結構為隱頭花序）成對腋生，黃綠色。
• 花期: 9 - 11月

Fruit:

• Fig (as syconium with numerous achenes structurally) ovoid-ellipsoid, purplish black when mature.  Achenes ovate, tuberculate.
• Fruiting: Sep - Nov

果實:

• 榕果（結構為多數瘦果組成的隱頭果序），卵狀橢圓體，成熟時紫黑色。瘦果卵狀，表面有小瘤體。
• 果期: 9 - 11月