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Ficus aurea Nutt.

Florida strangler fig (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Trees , evergreen, to 20 m. Roots aerial, sometimes present on branches, pendent, sometimes reaching ground and forming pillar-roots. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets yellow. Leaves: stipules 1-1.5 cm; petiole 1-6 cm. Leaf blade ovate to oblong or obovate, 6-12(-15) × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse or shortly and bluntly acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more these not uniformly spaced. Syconia usually paired, usually sessile, rarely with peduncles to 5 mm, red or yellow, obovoid, 6-15 mm diam., glabrous; subtending bracts 2, 3-5 mm, glabrous; ostiole prominent, closed by 3 conspicuous scales.
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A fig. It is a tree. It germinates in the tops of trees and it grows attached to the trees until the roots contact the ground It strangles the tree becoming a free-standing tree. It can be 30 m tall. The size and shape of the leaves varies. They are usually 10 cm long. They can have a wedge shaped or heart shaped base. They are green and turn yellow when ripe. They can be 1 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 3.0
Mature height (meter) 20.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Hummocks on the shores and islands. Forest or open hillsides, about 300 metres.
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It is a tropical plant.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 2-7
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal wood
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Dermatological Aid (bark), Angina (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Heart (unspecified), Hoarseness (unspecified), Chest (unspecified), Hernia (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Ficus aurea habit picture by Collados Ana (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Ficus aurea leaf picture by Hernandez (cc-by-sa)
Ficus aurea leaf picture by Jeremy Edwards (cc-by-sa)
Ficus aurea leaf picture by Feya Sterling (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Ficus aurea fruit picture by Trap Hers (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Ficus aurea world distribution map, present in Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, and United States of America

Conservation status

Ficus aurea threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:852451-1
WFO ID wfo-0000687419
COL ID 6HVWR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 629733
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Urostigma tecolutense Urostigma warszewiczii Urostigma venustum Ficus cabusana Ficus dimidiata Ficus lundellii Ficus tuerckheimii Ficus venusta Ficus warczewiczii Ficus cookii Ficus isophlebia Ficus jimenezii Ficus laterisyce Ficus mayana Ficus rigidula Ficus sapotifolia Ficus sororia Ficus tecolutensis Ficus ciliolosa Ficus aurea var. latifolia Ficus aurea
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