Basic Information:

基本資料:

Scientific Name:
Xanthostemon chrysanthus (F. Muell.) Benth.

名稱:
金蒲桃

Common Name:
Golden Penda

Family Name:
Myrtaceae

科屬:
桃金娘科

Habit:
Evergreen tree

習性:
常綠喬木

Origin Name:

Exotic; Queensland in the Northeast Australia.

原產地:

外來；澳洲東北部的昆士蘭。

Features:

特徵:

Height:
Cultivars to 12 m. To 40 m in native habitats.

高度:
栽培種可達12米，原生地植株可達40米。

Stems:
Bark of trunk grey, smooth.

莖:
主幹樹皮灰色，平滑。

Leaf:

Lanceolate, oblanceolate to elliptic. Apex acuminate to acute, papery to hard leathery, glossy. Simple, alternate, whorled. Young leaves bronze red to light green, turning dark green in maturity.

葉:

披針形、倒披針形至橢圓形，葉尖漸尖至急尖，紙質至硬革質，光滑。單葉互生，輪狀排列。嫩葉銅紅色至亮綠色，後轉成深綠色。

Flower:

• Golden yellow. Hypanthium cup-shaped. Petals 4 to 5, yellow, ovate to orbicular. Stamens many, golden yellow, arranged in a whorl, exserted from corolla. Inflorescence arranges as a hemisphere, like a half of pompom.
• Flowering: All year round

花:

• 金黃色。萼管杯狀。花瓣4至5，黃色，卵形至圓形。雄蕊多數，金黃色，排成一輪、伸出花冠，花序排列成半球體，像半個毛毛球。
• 花期: 全年

Fruit:

• Capsule, globose, slightly depressed, enclosed by hypanthium in 1/3 to a half. Brown when mature, split open to eject seed.
• Fruiting: All year round

果實:

• 蒴果，球狀，稍壓扁，被萼管包圍三分之一至一半，成熟時褐色，開裂以彈出種子。
• 果期: 全年