Month: February 2015

Species: Ficus fistulosa English Name: Common Yellow Stem-fig Chinese Name: 水同木 Family: Moraceae Description: Small trees, evergreen; dioecious. Bark dark brown. Branchlets hispid. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm. Leaves alternate; petiole (0.7-)1.5-4 cm; hispid or hirsute; leaf blade obovate to oblong, 10-20 × 4-8 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely pubescent or yellow tuberculate, adaxially glabrous, base obliquely cuneate to rounded, margin…

Species: Ficus elastica English Name: Indian Rubber Tree Chinese Name: 印度榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 20-30 m tall, d.b.h. 25-40 cm, epiphytic when young. Bark pale gray, smooth. Branchlets strong. Stipules dark red, ca. 10 cm, membranous; scar conspicuous. Petiole robust, 2-5 cm; leaf blade oblong to elliptic, 8-30 × 7-10 cm, thickly leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark…

Species: Ficus binnendijkii English Name: Fig Alii Chinese Name: 亞裏垂榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus benjamina L. cv. Variegata English Name: Variegated Benjamin Fig Chinese Name: 花葉垂葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:

Species: Ficus benjamina English Name: Benjamin Fig Chinese Name: 垂葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, to 20 m tall, crown wide, d.b.h. 30-50 cm. Bark gray to gray-white, smooth. Main branches producing aerial roots which can develop into new trunks; branchlets gray-white, pendulous, glabrous. Stipules caducous, lanceolate, 0.6-1.5 cm, membranous, glabrous. Petiole 1-2 cm, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade ovate to…

Species: Ficus auriculata English Name: Large-fruited Fig Chinese Name: 大果榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 4-10 m tall, crown elongated and wide, d.b.h. 10-15 cm; dioecious. Bark grayish brown, rough. Branchlets reddish brown, 1-1.5 cm thick, leafless in middle of stem, pubescent. Stipules reddish purple, triangular-ovate, 1.5-2 cm, adaxially shortly pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole thick, 5-8 cm; leaf blade broadly…

Species: Ficus altissima English Name: Lofty Fig Chinese Name: 高山榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 25-30 m tall, d.b.h. 40-90 cm. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets green, ca. 1 cm thick, pubescent. Stipules 2-3 cm, thickly leathery, with gray silky hairs. Petiole robust, 2-5 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, 10-19 × 8-11 cm, thickly leathery, glabrous, base broadly…

Species: Cudrania cochinchinensis English Name: Cochinchina Cudrania Chinese Name: 構棘 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References:  

Species: Broussonetia papyrifera English Name: Paper Mulberry Chinese Name: 構樹 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees 10-20 m tall, flowers always produced on leafy stems; dioecious. Bark dark gray. Branchlets densely pubescent. Stipules ovate, 1.5-2 × 0.8-1 cm, apex attenuate. Leaves spirally arranged; petiole 2.3-8 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate to narrowly elliptic-ovate, simple or 3-5-lobed on young trees, 6-18 ×…

Species: Artocarpus nitidus English Name: Lingnan Artocarpus Chinese Name: 桂木 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees or small trees, to 17 m tall, straight. Bark black to brown, longitudinally fissured. Branchlets cylindric, wrinkled, 2-3 mm thick, appressed puberulent, rapidly glabrescent. Stipules lanceolate, caducous. Petiole 0.5-2 cm; leaf blade oblong to ± orbicular [or ovate], 7-15 × 3-7 cm, leathery to thinly…