Ficus formosana Maxim.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Shrubs, 1.5-3 m tall, evergreen. Branchlets, petioles, and venation sparsely covered with short pubescence when young. Branchlets brown or reddish brown, slender; internodes short, shortly pubescent, glabrescent. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Petiole 7-10 mm, scurfy or sparsely pubescent; leaf blade oblanceolate to ± linear, 4-12 × 1.5-4 cm, papery to membranous, abaxially graish, sparsely pilose and with cystoliths, adaxially dark green when dry, base narrowly cuneate, margin entire or with some teeth toward apex, apex acuminate; midvein inconspicuous; basal lateral veins 2, short; secondary veins 6-15 on each side of midvein, parallel, inconspicuous, sparsely covered with short pubescence. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary, green flushed pale red when mature, with white dots, ovoid-globose, 1.2-1.8 × 0.6-1 cm, glabrous, tuberculate, base attenuate into a short thin stalk, apical pore navel-like, convex; peduncle 2-10 mm, usually pilose; involucral bracts triangular-ovate, margin ciliolate. Male flowers: scattered, pedicellate or sessile; calyx lobes 3 or 4, ovate; stamens 2(or 3); anthers longer than filaments. Gall flowers: calyx lobes 4 or 5, boatlike; ovary stipitate, globose; style lateral, short. Female flowers: pedicellate or sessile; calyx lobes 4; style long; stigma funnelform. Achenes globose, smooth. Fl. Apr-Jul.
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A fig tree. It is a shrub 2-3 m tall. The branches have short hairs when young. The leaves are broadly sword shaped and 4-12 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. The figs grown in the axils of leaves. They occur singly. The fruit are blackish.
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Growth form shrub
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality gynodioecy
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 3.0
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OctNovDec
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A tropical plant. It grows in secondary forest. It grows below 1500 m altitude in Yunnan in China.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

The fruit are eaten raw.
Uses gene source medicinal
Edible fruits
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Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Images

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Distribution

Ficus formosana world distribution map, present in China, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:852854-1
WFO ID wfo-0000688363
COL ID 6HXC4
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Synonyms

Ficus formosana Ficus lageniformis Ficus taiwaniana Ficus formosana f. lageniformis Ficus formosana f. shimadai Ficus formosana var. shimadae