Family: Moraceae
Plant: Large, spreading tree to 30m high with a massive, buttressed trunk. It is epiphytic and strangling in its early stages.
Flowers: Completely enclosed within a fig-shaped receptacle 2-2.5cm diameter.
Fruit: Ovoid fig, orange turning purple at maturity 2-3cm diameter with a pointed apex. Fruit is borne on a stalk more than 1cm long.
Fruiting: January-December.
Leaves: Alternate, ovate to elliptic 10-25cm long and 7-10cm wide, thick, glossy above and rusty below with minute scales and prominent veins, a yellow mid-vein and sap present.
Habitat: Common in or near rainforest.
Features: Orange to purple figs with stalks more than 1cm long. Thick glossy leaves. A milky sap. Buttress trunk on mature trees.
Name:
Ficus From Latin = fig
macrophylla From Greek = large-leaved
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Type |
Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
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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 |
Green, Orange, Purple |
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Other Features |
Fleshy, Hairy |
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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, Long |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
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Bark |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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