50 Common Trees in Hong Kong Volume 2
Scientific Name
| Machilus chekiangensis
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Name in Chinese
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浙江潤楠
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Common Name
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Zhejiang machilus
| Introduction |
Machilus chekiangensis is an evergreen tree from Zhejiang Province of China. It prefers warm and wet environment with porous soil. It is commonly seen in valleys and beside rivers.
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Special Features
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The bark of this species is greyish white to brown, with shallow and irregular horizontal cracks. Leaf is obovate, with apex acute and base gradually narrow. Leaves always cluster at branch ends.
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To Learn More
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Its wood is useful in building and for making tools. The wood texture is fine and easily processed to make the wood grains more beautiful. The wood is enduring, with elegant but strong fragrant, and disinfectant properties.
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Characteristics
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Whole Plant
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Family
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Lauraceae
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Height
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Up to 40 metres
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Nature
of Leaf
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Evergreen tree
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Others
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Crown pyramid shaped, with dense and thick layers
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Photo
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Ngong Ping Fun Walk
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Branch
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Stiff trunk, branching rather low.
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Branchlets hairy.
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Bark
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The bark of this species is greyish white to brown, with shallow and irregular horizontal cracks.
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Leaf
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Leaf opposite, simple, about 8 cm long.
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Broadly lanceolate or obovate, leaf apex acute, base gradually narrow; leaves always clustered at branch ends.
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Lower surface with dense soft hairs.
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Flower
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Photo 1:
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Flowers bisexual, regular, flowering from December to January.
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Small, clustered at base of branchlets in panicles.
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Glands on stamen base, style hairy.
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Photo 2:
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Above are the close-up shot of the flowers of Machilus chekiangensis.
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Fruit
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Spherical drupe, base with persistent calyx.
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Turns black when ripe.
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