Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Liquidambar formosana Hance

名稱:
楓香樹

Common Name:
Sweet Gum, Chinese Sweet Gum

俗名:
楓香樹，楓香

Family Name:
Hamamelidaceae

科屬:
金縷梅科

Habit:
Deciduous tree

習性:
落葉喬木

Origin Name:

Native plants, It is distributed Central, East, South and West China, Laos, Vietnam and South Korea.

原產地:

本土植物，分佈於華中、華東、華南及華西、老撾、越南及南韓。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 30m tall

高度:
可高達30米

Stems:
Bark of trunk greyish brown, usually fissured into blocks, or peeled off. Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of main trunk to 1m.

莖:
主幹樹皮灰褐色，常呈方塊狀裂開，或剝落。主幹胸徑可達1米。

Leaf:

Palmately 3-lobed, base cordate, apex caudate-acuminate, margin serrate, thinly leathery. Central lobe comparatively larger and longer, two lateral lobes spreading. With 3 to 5 palmately veins, prominent on both sides. Green adaxially, turn greyish green when dry, greyish white abaxially when dry. Turn orange red in autumn, then defoliate.

葉:

掌狀3裂，葉基心型，葉尖尾狀漸尖，葉緣具鋸齒，薄革質。中央裂片較大及長，兩側裂片平展。掌狀脈3至5條，兩面突出。葉面綠色，乾後灰綠色，葉底乾時灰白色；秋季轉橙紅色，後落葉。

Flower:

• Unisexual inflorescences, monoecious, perianth absent.
• Flowering: Mar - Jun

花:

• 花序單性，雌雄同株，無花被。
• 花期: 3 - 6月

Fruit:

• Infructescence globose, woody, with diameter about 3 to 4 cm, brown when mature. Capsule, with persistent needle-like structure. Seeds many.
• Fruiting: Jul - Sep

果實:

• 果序球狀，木質，直徑3至4厘米，成熟時褐色。蒴果，上有宿存的針狀物。種子多數。
• 果期: 7 - 9月