羅漢松 Buddhist Pine

常綠喬木，高可達15米
Evergreen tree, up to 15m tall

樹幹 Trunk
樹皮縱裂或呈薄片狀脫落
Bark with longitudinal cracks or peeling off in flakes

葉 Leaf
革質 (Leathery)，7-12 x 0.7-1 cm

Flower
雄球花長 (Male cones) 3-5 cm
雌球花單生於葉腋
Female cones axillary, solitary

Seed
種子直徑約1厘米，成熟時假種皮紫黑色，被白粉
Seeds about 1 cm in diameter, arils purple black when ripe, covered with a whitish coating

Features for identification
Leaves spirally arranged on the upper part of branchlets, slightly revolute (反捲), dark green and glossy (光澤) on the leaves, grey green beneath the leaves, midveins raised on both sides
Upper part with spherical seeds, lower part with short column-shaped fleshy receptacle, red or purplish red, looking like a 羅漢 wearing a 袈裟 on the whole

ISBN: 978-988-120-2130