Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Viburnum odoratissimum Ker Gawl.

名稱:
珊瑚樹

Common Name:
Sweet Viburnum

俗名:
極香莢蒾，早禾樹，山豬肉

Family Name:
Caprifoliaceae

科屬:
忍冬科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Native; Provinces in South China. It also has distribution in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan and the Korean Peninsula.

原產地:

原生；中國南部各省。印度、緬甸、泰國、越南、菲律賓、日本及朝鮮半島亦有分佈。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Up to 10m tall

高度:
可高達10米

Stems:
With raised tuberculate lenticels

莖:
具凸起的小瘤狀皮孔

Leaf:

Elliptic, oblong to obovate, leathery, opposite. Margin irregularly and shallowly undulate-serrate at the upper part, or subentire. Adaxially dark green and glossy, abaxially sometimes sparsely with dark-red small glands, often with tufted brown hairs aggregating at axils of veins. Lateral veins and midveins conspicuously raised abaxially.

葉:

橢圓形、長圓形至倒卵形，革質，對生。邊緣上部有不規則淺波狀鋸齒或近全緣。葉面深綠色，有光澤，葉底有時散生暗紅色微腺點，脈腋常具棕色簇毛。側脈及中脈在葉底顯著凸起。

Flower:

• Flowers fragrant. Inflorescences terminal, pyramidal. Rotate corolla white, later turns yellowish white, sometimes reddish. Lobes ovate-orbicular, reflexed.
• Flowering: Mar - Apr

花:

• 花芳香。花序頂生，呈金字塔狀。輻狀花冠白色，後變黃白色，有時微紅，裂片卵圓形，反折。
• 花期: 3 - 4月

Fruit:

• Drupes ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, red when young, turning to black when mature.
• Fruiting: May – Sep

果實:

• 核果卵球體至卵狀橢圓體，初時紅色，成熟後黑色
• 果期: 5 - 9月