假黃楊屬常綠喬木，臺灣特有種。樹枝細長，小枝具有溝紋，略有毛茸至光滑無毛。單葉互生，葉橢圓形至卵狀長橢圓形，革質，葉緣為細鈍鋸齒緣。花小，數枚，無花瓣，雌雄異株，呈總狀花序排列，腋生。果為核果，橢圓形至卵狀橢圓形，略有毛茸，內有種子一枚。種子倒卵形，有淺溝紋3條。

An evergreen tree in the genus Liodendron, endemic to Taiwan. The branches are slender and the branchlets are grooved and slightly villous or smoothly hairless. Leaves grow alternately, shaped elliptic to ovate-elliptic, leathery, denticulate leaf margins. Flowers are small and handful, no petals, dioecious, arranged in racemes, axillary. The fruit is a drupe shaped elliptic to ovate-elliptic, slightly villous, containing one obovate seed with 3 shallow grooves.

全日照溫暖環境，對土壤適應力強，以富含有機質及排水良好的土壤為佳。枝條凌亂時可以酌加修剪。播種、扦插繁殖。

The plant enjoys full-sun and warm environments, high adaptability to soil, but better to plant in organic matter rich and well-drained soil. Pruning could be performed when the branches appear messy. Reproduced by seeding and cutting.

可做庭園景觀樹、行道樹，亦可馴化成為室內植物。木材可作薪柴用。是臺灣紋白蝶、尖翅粉蝶、雲紋粉蝶、蘭嶼粉蝶的食草植物。

It can be used as garden landscape trees, street trees, or domesticated to be indoor plants. The timber can be used as fuelwood. It is an herbivorous plant of Pieris canidia, Appias albina, Appias indra and Appias paulina minato.