香苹婆Sterculia foetida Linn.
香苹婆Sterculia foetida Linn.
2．香苹婆（海南植物志）图版32：9-11
Sterculia foetida Linn. Sp. Pl. 1008. 1753; Mast. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 354. 1874; Gagnep. in Lecte. Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1: 461-462. 1911; Tardieu-Blot in Humbert Suppl, Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1: 401. 1945; 陈焕镛等，海南植物志2: 72. 1965.
乔木；枝轮生，平伸。叶聚生于小枝顶端，为掌状复叶，有小叶7-9片，小叶椭圆状披针形，长10-15厘米，宽3-5厘米，顶端长渐尖或尾状渐尖，基部楔形，幼时有毛，成长后无毛；叶柄长10-20厘米；托叶剑状，早落。圆锥花序直立，着生在新枝的近顶部，有多花；小苞片细小，花梗比花短；萼红紫色，长约12毫米，5深裂几至基部，萼片椭圆状披针形，向外广展，外面被淡黄褐色短柔毛，内面的上部密被白色长绒毛，远比萼筒长；雄花的花药12-15个，聚生成头状；雌花的心皮5枚，被毛，花柱弯曲，柱头5裂。蓇葖果木质，椭圆形且似船状，长5-8厘米，顶端急尖如喙状，几无毛，每果有种子10-15个；种子椭圆形，黑色而光滑，长约1.5厘米。花期4-5月。
本种在广州康乐和海南崖县有栽培，广西也有栽培。印度、斯里兰卡、越南、泰国、柬埔寨、缅甸、澳大利亚北部和非洲热带都有分布。
本种的种子炒熟后可食，味如栗子；但花有臭味。
《Flora of China》 Vol. 12 (2007)
Sterculia foetida Linnaeus
香苹婆 xiang ping po
Trees. Branches verticillate and spreading. Leaves apically clustered, palmately 7-9-foliolate; stipules arrow-shaped, caducous; petiole 10-20 cm; leaflet blades elliptic-lanceolate, 10-15 × 3-5 cm, at first pilose, glabrescent when mature, base cuneate, margin entire, apex long acuminate or caudate. Inflorescence apical on branchlets, paniculate, erect, many-flowered. Pedicels shorter than flowers. Epicalyx lobes minute. Calyx purple-red, ca. 12 mm, divided nearly to base, lobes elliptic-lanceolate, abaxially yellowish brown pubescent, adaxially upper half white villous. Male flowers: stamens 12-15, capitate. Female flowers: carpels 5, hairy. Style curved; stigma 5-divided. Follicle ellipsoid and boat-shaped, 5-8 cm, woody, nearly glabrous, apex acute into beak, 10-15-seeded. Seeds black, ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 cm, smooth. Fl. Apr-May.
Cultivated. Guangdong (Guangzhou), Guangxi, S Hainan (Sanya) [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, ?Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; native to India, now cultivated in tropical Africa, N Australia, and South America].
Sterculia foetida seems to be a rather weedy species of uncertain origin. The seeds are edible after toasting and taste like chestnuts (Castanea sativa Miller); they also contain an oil that is used medicinally, while the timber is used for making furniture and the bark for rope.
别名：hazel sterculia;裂叶苹婆;掌叶蘋婆;掌叶苹婆;香萍婆;裂叶蘋婆;
科名：梧桐科 Sterculiaceae
属名：苹婆属 Sterculia
2．香苹婆（海南植物志）图版32：9-11
Sterculia foetida Linn. Sp. Pl. 1008. 1753; Mast. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 354. 1874; Gagnep. in Lecte. Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1: 461-462. 1911; Tardieu-Blot in Humbert Suppl, Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1: 401. 1945; 陈焕镛等，海南植物志2: 72. 1965.
乔木；枝轮生，平伸。叶聚生于小枝顶端，为掌状复叶，有小叶7-9片，小叶椭圆状披针形，长10-15厘米，宽3-5厘米，顶端长渐尖或尾状渐尖，基部楔形，幼时有毛，成长后无毛；叶柄长10-20厘米；托叶剑状，早落。圆锥花序直立，着生在新枝的近顶部，有多花；小苞片细小，花梗比花短；萼红紫色，长约12毫米，5深裂几至基部，萼片椭圆状披针形，向外广展，外面被淡黄褐色短柔毛，内面的上部密被白色长绒毛，远比萼筒长；雄花的花药12-15个，聚生成头状；雌花的心皮5枚，被毛，花柱弯曲，柱头5裂。蓇葖果木质，椭圆形且似船状，长5-8厘米，顶端急尖如喙状，几无毛，每果有种子10-15个；种子椭圆形，黑色而光滑，长约1.5厘米。花期4-5月。
本种在广州康乐和海南崖县有栽培，广西也有栽培。印度、斯里兰卡、越南、泰国、柬埔寨、缅甸、澳大利亚北部和非洲热带都有分布。
本种的种子炒熟后可食，味如栗子；但花有臭味。
《Flora of China》 Vol. 12 (2007)
Sterculia foetida Linnaeus
香苹婆 xiang ping po
Trees. Branches verticillate and spreading. Leaves apically clustered, palmately 7-9-foliolate; stipules arrow-shaped, caducous; petiole 10-20 cm; leaflet blades elliptic-lanceolate, 10-15 × 3-5 cm, at first pilose, glabrescent when mature, base cuneate, margin entire, apex long acuminate or caudate. Inflorescence apical on branchlets, paniculate, erect, many-flowered. Pedicels shorter than flowers. Epicalyx lobes minute. Calyx purple-red, ca. 12 mm, divided nearly to base, lobes elliptic-lanceolate, abaxially yellowish brown pubescent, adaxially upper half white villous. Male flowers: stamens 12-15, capitate. Female flowers: carpels 5, hairy. Style curved; stigma 5-divided. Follicle ellipsoid and boat-shaped, 5-8 cm, woody, nearly glabrous, apex acute into beak, 10-15-seeded. Seeds black, ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 cm, smooth. Fl. Apr-May.
Cultivated. Guangdong (Guangzhou), Guangxi, S Hainan (Sanya) [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, ?Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; native to India, now cultivated in tropical Africa, N Australia, and South America].
Sterculia foetida seems to be a rather weedy species of uncertain origin. The seeds are edible after toasting and taste like chestnuts (Castanea sativa Miller); they also contain an oil that is used medicinally, while the timber is used for making furniture and the bark for rope.