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Scientific Name: Artocarpus hypargyreus Hance ex Benth.
Common Name: Silver-back Artocarpus Chinese Name: ¥Õ®Û¤ì Plant Family Name: Moraceae Habit: Evergreen large tree Flowering Period: May to August Fruiting Period: June to August Localities: Common in Hong Kong Silver-back Artocarpus is included in IUCN Red List and classified as vulnerable for that it is merely scattered in southern provinces of China. It is also recorded in the book of Rare and Precious Plants of Hong Kong, China Plant Red Data Book and Illustrations of Rare & Endangered Plant in Guangdong Province. This species is relatively common in Hong Kong and many localities of wild occurrence are in Country Parks under protection. At this time, you may see its flower and fruit when visiting Country Parks. Silver-back Artocarpus is evergreen tree. Young shoots and petioles covered with short hairs. Leaves are leathery. Alternate leaves are elliptic or obovate-oblong in shape, 8 to 15 cm long and 4 to 7 cm wide. Leaves are entire with white short hair abaxially. Plant is monoecious: male flowers on obovoid or club-shaped stiff spikes, 1.5 to 2 cm long and female flowers in a dense globose head. Fruits are syncarps, about 1.5 cm in diameter, orange, papillate and brown pubescent. Besides Hong Kong, the species is distributed in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunnan, Jiangxi and Fujian. |
