Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Ficus microcarpa

名稱:
細葉榕

Common Name:
Chinese Banyan, Small-fruited Fig

俗名:
細葉榕, 榕樹, 萬年青

Family Name:
Moraceae

科屬:
桑科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Native; Hong Kong.

原產地:

原生；香港。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 25m tall

高度:
可高達25米

Stems:

• Bark of trunk dark grey. Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of main trunk to 0.5 m or above. In Hong Kong, some of the Old and Valuable Trees (OVT) of Chinese Banyan appear over 2 m in DBH.
• Pendulous aerial roots in rusty colour emerges from the branches of mature tree. The aerial roots are used for gas exchange.

莖:

• 主幹樹皮深灰色，胸徑可達半米或以上。在香港，部分被列入古樹名木冊的榕樹胸徑達兩米以上。
• 老樹枝條常長出下垂、鐵鏽色的氣根，作氣體交換之用。

Leaf:

Leathery, elliptic to obovate, dark green and shiny adaxially. Margin entire, apex obtuse.

葉:

革質，橢圓形至倒卵形，葉面深綠色、具光澤，全緣，葉尖鈍尖。

Flower:

• The flower of Chinese Banyan is fig (as hypanthodium structurally). Male flowers, female flowers and gall flowers are distributed on the inner wall of the pressed globes.
• Flowering: May - Dec

花:

• 榕樹的花是無花果（結構為隱頭花序），扁球體的內壁上長滿了雌花、雄花及癭花。
• 花期: 5 - 12月

Fruit:

• The fruit of Chinese Banyan is fig (as syconium with numerous achenes structurally), pale yellowish to slightly reddish when mature, even turning blackish purple.
• Fruiting: May - Dec

果實:

• 榕樹的果是榕果（結構為多數瘦果組成的隱頭果序），成熟時呈淡黃色或略為微紅，甚至轉為紫黑色。
• 果期: 5 - 12月