Month: February 2015

Species: Ficus rumphii English Name: Mock Buddha Tree Chinese Name: 假菩提樹 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, ca. 15 m tall, usually epiphytic. Bark gray, wrinkled when dry. Stipules caducous, ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm, scar conspicuous. Petiole 6-8 cm, glabrous; leaf blade cordate to ovate-cordate, 6-13 × 6-11 cm, ± leathery, glabrous, base ± cordate to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate; basal lateral…

Species: Ficus religiosa English Name: Peepul Tree Chinese Name: 菩提樹 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 15-25 m tall, d.b.h. 30-50 cm, epiphytic when young, crown wide when mature. Bark gray, smooth or longitudinally ± fissured. Branchlets grayish brown, sparsely pubescent when young. Stipules ovate, small, apex acute. Petiole slender, as long as or longer than leaf blade, articulate; leaf blade…

Species: Ficus microcarpa L. f. cv. crassifolia English Name: Round-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 厚葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus microcarpa L. f. cv. Yellow Strip English Name: Yellow Strip Fig Chinese Name: 黃斑榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus microcarpa L. f. cv. Golden Leaves English Name: Golden-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 黃金榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus microcarpa English Name: Chinese Banyan Chinese Name: 榕樹 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 15-25 m tall, crown wide, d.b.h. to 50 cm. Bark dark gray. Branches producing rust-colored aerial roots when old. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 0.8 cm. Petiole 5-10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 4-8 × 3-4 cm, ± leathery, adaxially dark green and shiny but dark…

Species: Ficus lyrata English Name: Fiddle-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 大琴葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus hispida English Name: Opposite-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 對葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs or small trees, coarsely hairy; dioecious. Stipules usually 4 and decussate on leafless fruiting branchlets, ovate-lanceolate. Leaves opposite; petiole 1-4 cm, with short thick hairs; leaf blade ovate, oblong, or obovate-oblong, 10-25 × 5-10 cm, thickly papery, abaxially with coarse gray hairs, adaxially rough and…

Species: Ficus hirta English Name: Hairy Fig Chinese Name: 粗葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets leafless in middle, golden yellow or brown hirsute. Stipules red, ovate-lanceolate, 1-3 cm, membranous, pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-8 cm, brown hirsute; leaf blade simple or palmately 3-5-lobed, 8-25 cm, glabrous or golden yellow hirsute, base cuneate, rounded, or shallowly cordate,…