Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Melia azedarach L.

名稱:
苦楝

Common Name:
China Berry

俗名:
楝，苦楝，森樹，紫花樹

Family Name:
Meliaceae

科屬:
楝科

Habit:
Deciduous tree

習性:
落葉喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; The Yellow River Basin and provinces at the south of the Yellow River. Also distributed in tropical and subtropical regions in Asia, tropical regions in Australia and the Pacific.

原產地:

外來；黃河流域一帶及黃河以南各省，亞洲熱帶及亞熱帶地區、澳洲及太平洋熱帶地區均有分佈。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 10m tall

高度:
可高達10米

Stems:
Bark of trunk greyish brown, longitudinally fissured.

莖:
主幹樹皮灰褐色，縱裂。

Leaf:

Imparipinnate, bipinnate or tripinnate. Leaflets opposite, papery, ovate, elliptic, to lanceolate. Apex shortly acuminate, base oblique, margin obtusely serrate. Terminal leaflet usually slightly larger.

葉:

一至三回奇數羽狀複葉。小葉對生，紙質，卵形、橢圓形至披針形，葉尖短漸尖，葉基歪斜，葉緣有鈍鋸齒，頂生一片通常稍大。

Flower:

• Fragrant. Petals 5, lilac, obovate-spatulate. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes ovate to oblong-ovate. Staminal tube purple, apex with 10 dentate lobes, like a cream nozzle. Anthers 10.
• Flowering: Apr - May

花:

• 具香味。花瓣5片，淡紫色，倒卵狀匙形。花萼5裂，裂片卵形至長圓狀卵形。雄蕊筒紫色，頂端10齒裂，像一奶油噴嘴。花藥10枚。
• 花期: 4 - 5月

Fruit:

• Drupe, globose to ellipsoid, yellow when mature. Endocarp ligneous.
• Fruiting: Oct - Dec

果實:

• 核果，球體至橢圓體，成熟時黃色。內果皮木質。
• 果期: 10 - 12月