Plant in TLF (latest Information in English and Mandarin Version) II

水柳樹 –Salix warbugii

水柳是相當優良的景觀樹種，頭城農場魚池畔就有一棵雄株的水柳，在早春時會換上一身的淺綠色的春芽，同時有著黃綠色的花絮；直到春夏之際，枝頭上已經換上濃綠的葉子。
Water willow tree landscape is quite good, beside fish pond at TLF has a male water willow tree, in the early spring it will put on a light green of spring’s bud, and at the same time has the yellow-greenish inflorescence. Until spring and summer, the branches already put on the dark green leaves.

別名：水柳樹、苦柳、沙柳、水柳仔、河柳

楊柳科柳屬。

常綠落葉性喬木。

葉互生，長卵狀披針形，葉緣有細鋸齒，葉被常呈灰白色。

Common Name: Water Willow Tree
Salicaceae-Salix plant
Evergreen deciduous trees.
Long-lanceolate leaves alternate with finely serrated margin, often in grey colour.

 

花序為柔荑花序，雌雄異株，花色黃綠色，花期以2~4月為主。 

果期4~6月。果實成熟時開裂，且具有白色的棉絮協助種子以風力傳播。

Dioeciously inflorescence catkin in yellow-greenish color and mainly blooms on February to April.

Fruiting period is April to Jun. Fruit will cracked when ripe, while white cotton seeds help seeds to disperse through wind.

在外形上，垂柳具有下垂的枝條，而水柳的枝條則是向上伸展。

In shape, branches of weeping willow tree are drooping while branches of water willow are stretching upward.

在中國文學中，若指「柳」多半是指垂柳，但是一提到「柳絮」指的則是水柳的因為垂柳在果實成熟時，不會有隨風飄散的白色柳絮，而水柳才具有白色的柳絮。

In Chinese Literature, if the word is “willow (liu)” mainly refers to the weeping willow, but when mention the word “willow catkins(liu xu)” refers to water willow, because of when weeping willow fruit ripen, the white catkins will not carried by the wind, only water willow has white willow catkins.

台灣特有種的水生植物。Taiwan aquatic plant’s endemic species.

  

雀榕 –Ficus sp.

頭城農場池畔的雀榕枝幹上，每到「隱花果」生長密密麻麻時，吸引成群的麻雀、白頭翁、綠繡眼……等鳥兒，前來爭相啄食，伴著悅耳的鳥鳴聲，甚是熱鬧。
Branches of banyan tree on the pond side, when syconium grows densely, attract sparrows, bulbul, white eye and others flocks, came to compete the fruits, accompany with the sweet birdsong lively.

雀榕被鄒族人視為神樹，他們相信在舉行馬雅斯比祭（戰獵祭）時，天神會沿著神樹而下進入會所，因此族人在祭典前，矯健俐落地攀上雀榕，砍下最接近天神的枝丫，以迎接天神的到來。此外，他們會在神樹前殺豬祭神、敬獻供品，而從神樹至會所的空間是神聖、不容許閒雜人穿越的。
Banyan tree is considered sacred tree, the Tsou tribe believed that when the Mayasvi, the god will along the scared tree came down to the festival, therefore before the festival, the tribe will climb the this tree vigorously, chopped down the branches closest to the god to greet the arrival of the god. In addition, they will kill pig for sacrifice rituals and present the offerings in front of this sacred tree, the space between the sacred tree to the festival is sacred and do not allow unauthorized persons to cross over.

別名：鳥榕、赤榕。

桑科榕屬。具有隱頭花序、氣根與白色乳汁，是桑科榕屬植物的重要特徵。

熱帶植物，分布臺灣、福建、廣西、廣東、雲南等地。

落葉大喬木。葉互生橢圓形，叢生枝端，一年落葉2~4次，每次落葉後2~3周又會長出滿樹的新芽。雌雄同株。鳥兒吃了果實未消化以及榕果小蜂產卵為其傳播途徑。果實提供將來榕果小蜂產卵發育成蟲癭。榕果成熟時紅色，具白斑點。

Common Name: Banyan, Curtain fig

Moraceae-FIcus plant. The important characteristics of this family Ficus plant are the plant has aerial roots with white milk and the hidden inflorescence.

It is a large deciduous tree. The oval leaves with alternate arrangement that clusters on branches, leaves falling twice to fourth times a year, every time after the leaves fall, it will sprout out new leaves after 2 to 3 weeks. The flower is hermaphrodite. Birds eat the fruit but undigested fig and the wasp will lay egg for its transmission. The fig provides future wasp to lay egg and developed to gall. When the fruit is ripening, it will show red colour with white marking.

  

  大葉楠 – Machilus japonica

幾年前聖誕節前夕，頭城農場老闆娘有鑑於之前的12生肖許願樹已老舊，於是利用了石子廣場前的大葉楠，靈感創意出聖誕許願樹。無論是白天晚上，都能呈現出令人感動意境。嘉賓們!大家也來許個願吧! =D

On Christmas Eve few years ago, TLF boss see that twelve zodiac wishing tree has been too old, therefore decided to use the Machilus tree on gravel square as the Christmas Wishing Tree creatively. Whether it is day or night, it can showing out poetic imaginary to the surrounding. All the guests! Please came and make a wish!   =D

科別：樟科 

種名：kusanoi，為日本植物學家草野氏之名，用以紀念他。 

別名：草野楨楠、大葉楠仔、楠木、楠仔。 

原產地：台灣特有種，產於臺灣全島中、低海拔闊葉林之溪谷及潮溼地，為全島闊葉林中之重要樹種之一。
Family: Lauraceae
Species: Kusanoi, use Kusano, Japanese botanist’s name to commemorate him.
Common Name: Large-leaved Nanmu
Origin: Taiwan endemic species, grow at whole Taiwan island, the low-elevation hardwood forest and valley, is one of the important species that produce broadleaved.

大葉楠和香楠、紅楠同屬於樟科家族，其中，以大葉楠之葉片較為大型。大葉楠為常綠大喬木，樹高可達20公尺，直徑寬可達1.5公尺，樹皮呈灰白色，有暗紅色排線斑點。葉革質互生，呈長橢圓形，先端尖銳，葉緣全緣並稍呈波浪狀，多著生枝端，春天發芽時具有多枚淡紅色的苞片，新葉淡紫綠色，老葉濃綠色，葉片大小差距可由8至22公分，中肋下表面突起，脈側7至11對，葉柄短於2公分，是青帶鳳蝶的幼蟲食草之一。

Machilus japonica, Machilus zuihoensis and Machilus thunbergii are same genus and same family, Machilus japonica’s leave blades are the largest. Machilus japonica is a large evergreen tree leaves, height up to 20 meters, diameter is 1.5 meters width, and the bark was grey with dark red spot line. Leathery leaves with alternate arrangement are oblong in shape, apex acute, leaves margin is slightly wavy, multi-branches, sprout out new pale red bracts when spring, new leaves in pale greenish purple, old leaves in dark green, leaf size about 8 – 22 cm, protrusion of the rib surface, 7 to 11 pair of lateral veins, petiole about 2cm short, is one of the food of Graphium sarpedon (Common Bluebottle)’s larvae.

大葉楠的花成頂生圓錐花序，花型較小，為黃色且光滑，花被片呈長橢圓形。大葉楠的果實為漿果球形，徑約1公分，為花後增大、宿存、反捲的花被片所包覆，成熟時為紫黑色。

Flowers of Machilus japonica form into the apical panicles, small yellow flower with smooth surface, elongated oval tepals. Its spherical berry fruit with 1cm in diameter was increased after flowering and coated by anti-roll tepal, turn into dark purple when ripen.

 

大葉楠具有耐濕、耐熱的特性，生長相當快速，因此在同為種植楠木類的地區中，大葉楠最為高聳，為台灣楠木類主要代表樹種，同時也是具潛力的鄉土綠化樹種。大葉楠和香楠一樣，樹皮都含有豐富黏質液，可提供作為線香的原料用，而大葉楠也由於木材堅軟中庸，保存期長，加工容易，因此也可提供建築、傢具、樂器、雕刻、船艦、車輛、建築、農具、器具、棺木、膠合板、橋樑等用途的材料。除此之外，大葉楠的根還可入藥，做為中藥用材。

Large-leaved Nanmu resist moist and heat properties, the growth is quite fast, at Machilus trees planted area, the tallest is Large-leaved Nanmu, main tree that represents the Machilus plants, but also is the potential of native tree species. Machilus japonica and Machilus zuihoensis is almost same like barks are rich in mucilage fluid, can used as raw materials of incense stick, the wood of Machilus japonica is hard moderate, long shelf life, easy to process, and therefore it also provide the materials for construction, to make furniture, musical instruments, sculptures, ships, vehicles, buildings, farm tools, appliances, coffins, plywood, bridges and other uses. Besides that, its roots can be used as medicine.

蓮霧 – Syzygium samarangense

頭城農場魚池前的這棵蓮霧，每年5月開花，6~8月結果纍纍，總會吸引遊客一嚐其美味。
Rose apple tree is located at the pond side in TLF, flowering on Mays, Fruiting on Jun to August, always will attract tourist come to taste it.
以前常常也利用竹竿“弄蓮霧”!
Back to the pasts, we always use bamboo stick to drop the rose apple.

別名:輦霧、璉霧、爪哇浦桃、洋蒲桃
桃金孃科。
屬熱帶常綠喬木果樹。原產馬來西亞。
十七世紀，由荷蘭人從非洲的爪哇所引入的。
新加坡及馬來西亞一帶稱爲水蓊，又名天桃。

Common Name: Rose apple
Family: Myrtaceae
A tropical evergreen fruit tree that origin from Malaysia.
At seventeenth century, it introduced by the Dutch and take from Java, Africa.
In Singapore and Malaysia, it is known as wax apple or “jambu”.

蓮霧果實呈海綿質，甜味比其它水果稍淡，但帶有特殊的蘋果香，除生食外，亦可鹽漬、糖漬或自製果汁。夏季炎炎，將蓮霧挖去果窪，清水洗淨，切成２～３片，拌入少許食鹽，再置入冰箱內冰涼後取出食用，生津止渴，清爽如甘泉。若喜好甜食，亦可加拌砂糖，風味亦佳。

Fruit is spongy, the sweetness is paler if compare to other fruits but carry with special apple flavour, beside eaten raw, can be preserved with salt or sugar or making juice. At scorching summer, remove unwanted part, wash with clean water, cut into 2 to 3, mix with little bit of salt, keep into freezer, after cold, bring it out and eat, refreshing and hold thirsty. If like sweet, sugar can be added to make it tastier.

蓮霧在食療上有解熱、利尿、寧靜神經作用。暑熱流汗過多，尿液少而呈金黃，心神煩躁不安，食用蓮霧具有療效。此外小孩有食滯、痾濕熱胃腸病，用蓮霧拌鹽供食用，可助消化。

At food therapy, it helps to antipyretic, diuretic and relief function. It also has curative effect on excessive sweating, stress and tension. It can help to digest food when mixed with salt.

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