Family: Moraceae
Plant: A small tree to 10m that begins its life as a lithophyte in a crevice on a sandstone rock face, eventually enveloping the rock with its roots.
Flowers: Completely enclosed within a fig-shaped receptacle 1-2cm diameter.
Fruit: Globular, warty fig yellow turning red, 1-2cm long and often growing in pairs. Stalk 2-5mm long.
Fruiting: February-July.
Leaves: Thick, obovate, ovate or elliptic, 7-10cm long and 5-6cm wide with prominent veins, a yellow mid-vein and sap present. Leaves are alternately arranged, hairy and rusty on underside.
Habitat: Rocky sites in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest.
Features: Figs yellow turning red with stalks 2-5mm long. Thick milky sap. Absence of buttresses on trunk of mature trees. Undersides of leaves have rusty hairs. Rusty hairs on young stems.
Name:
Ficus From Latin = fig
rubiginosa From Latin = reddish-brown (referring to the undersides of its leaves)
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Tree |
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Flowers |
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Colour(s) |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
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Flowering Month |
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Fruit |
Type |
Fig |
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Colour |
Yellow, Red |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Discolorous |
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Bark |
Smooth |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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