Boxleaf Eugenia Small trees or shrubs; branchlets 4-angled. Leaves simple, opposite, oblong to obovate, leathery, entire, shiny, green. Inflorescences terminal cyme or panicle. Flowers yellow or yellow-white. Fruit drupaceous, globose, persistent calyx at apex, black at maturity; with only 1 seed.
♦ Fruiting: from September to October ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Buddhist Pine Trees, evergreen, with numerous branches. Leaves simple, sessile, spirally arranged, coriaceous, glabrous, linear–lanceolate or oblong-elliptic; base acute; margin slightly revolute. Dioecious. Flowers unisexual, yellow, green, small; blossoming in spring; female cones solitary, axillary. Seeds ovoid, with receptacle below. Receptacles greenish blue and covered with white powder when young, red and fleshy when mature; as the Rohan Buddha (the monk) and named accordingly.
♦ Fruiting: from September to November ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Shaddock Trees, perennial, evergreen, 7–8 meters tall; trunks and branches robust, thorny. Leaves large and thick, unifoliate: a larger blade on the top connecting with a smaller decurrent one on the base. Flowers white. Pericarp smooth, with dense oil glands; pulp light yellow. Fruit pear-shaped, depressed globose, or ovate spherical, depending on different varieties.
♦ Fruiting: from September to December ♦ Seed Source: Fruit markets, parks, schools ♦ Time required for germination: About 1 week
Chinese Fan Palm Evergreen; trunks 9–10 meters height. Leaves terminal clustered, flabellate, palmatifid, deeply in divided, ovate-round; petioles with triangular spines on margin. Inflorescences about 1.5 meters, panicle, with many spike branches; bracts (spathes) embracing each branch, cylindrical. Flowers yellow-white. Fruit drupaceous, ellipsoid, blue-green when young, dark brown at maturity, with 1 oval seed each.
♦ Fruiting: from September to December ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses, street trees, coastal areas ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Cycas Palm Perennial, evergreen. Stems 1 to 3 meters, robust, densely covered with leafscars. Leaves pinnately compound, clustered at stem tops. Dioecious. Flowers terminal; male cones oblong cylindric, as a pine cone. Female structures terminal, clustered to ovoid or globose. Seeds red.
♦ Fruiting: from September to December ♦ Seed Source: Markets, parks ♦ Time required for germination: About 4 weeks
Manila Palm Stems erect, up to 5 meters tall. Leaves evergreen, pinnate, clustered at stem apex, nearly 150 cm long; rachis archly backwards and downwards. Inflorescences panicle. Flowers yellow-white. Fruit a drupe, ellipsoid, apiculate, silver green when young and bright red at maturity.
♦ Fruiting: from September to December ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Seashore Ardisia Shrubs, evergreen. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate; blades fleshy, obovate or oblanceolate; margins entire; upper surfaces dark green, lower surfaces light green. Flowers reddish. Fruit depressed-globose, black when mature.
♦ Fruiting: from September to December ♦ Seed Source: Parks, gardens, campuses ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Indian Barringtonia Trees, evergreen. Leaves obovate or oblong-elliptical, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile; margin entire. Calyx tuberous at base, 2–3 lobed, emarginate; petals 4, milky-white, ovate; stamens numerous, light red. Fruit hard, pyramidal; 4-angled and thus also named chessboard foot; pericarp smooth, fibrous; one seed, dispersed by seawater for reproduction.
♦ Fruiting: from September to next February ♦ Seed Source: Coastal areas ♦ Time required for germination: About 1 week
Tamarind Tree, evergreen. Bark dark brown; branches reddish-brown. Leaves even-pinnate with petioles, leaflets 8–15 pairs, sessile. Inflorescences racemose. Flowers yellow with purple lines; bracts 2, yellow-brown. Fruit a pod, oblong-terete, yellow-brown; containing 5–6 dark brown seeds.
♦ Fruiting: from November to next April ♦ Seed Source: Parks, campuses, street trees ♦ Time required for germination: About 2 weeks
Yolk Fruit Small trees, evergreen, 5–9 meters high. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged, clustered at the tip of branches; both surfaces shining, white or light yellow. Flowers in axillary clustered, white or pale yellow. Fruit orange, glabrous; pulp orange at maturity. Two types of fruit: one ovoid, with two seeds and a poor flavor; the other longer and oblong-cylindrical, with one seed, and a better flavor.
♦ Fruiting: starting in December ♦ Seed Source: Markets ♦ Time required for germination: About 5 weeks