Ficus fraseri Miq.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Shrub or tree to 10 m high (to 35 m high, deciduous and may be buttressed, fide Cooper & Cooper 2004: 324), strongly scabrid but otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite; lamina ovate, elliptic or obovate, mostly 5–15 cm long, 2.5–6.5 cm wide, cuneate or rounded to acute at base, entire margin (often lobed on young growth), obtuse to shortly acuminate at apex, strongly scabrid; lateral veins 6–8 pairs; petiole 0.5–2 cm long; stipules small, c. 0.3–0.8 cm long, minutely hairy. Figs paired or clustered in axils, ellipsoid, ovoid to globular, 1–2 cm long, yellow turning orange-red, red or purplish black, glabrous to strongly scabrid; ostiole umbonate with protruding apical bracts; basal bracts 3, forming a small collar; peduncle to 2 cm long. Male flowers often in ellipsoidal figs, with stamens 2. Female flowers with 3–5 tepals, often fringed.
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A fig. It is a tree up to 10-15 m high. It spreads 3-5 m wide. It loses its leaves during the year. The leaves are simple and 8-13 cm long by 2.5-3.5 cm wide. They are sandpapery on both sides. They are dark green above and paler underneath. The leaf stalk is 0.5-1 cm long. The fruit are 13-17 mm long by 15-20 mm wide. They occur singly or in pairs. When ripe they turn from orange-red to black. The fruit are edible.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature width (meter) 3.0 - 5.0
Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in the subtropics and warm temperate zones. They grow naturally in rainforests. It grows from sea level to 800 m above sea level.
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Upland rainforest, drier, more seasonal rainforest, littoral rainforest, riverine rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

The fruit are edible but have little taste.
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Edible fruits
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings. The seed are removed from the fig and mixed with sand before sowing as they are very small. Take the seed from ripe orange-brown fruit.
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Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Images

Ficus fraseri unspecified picture

Distribution

Ficus fraseri world distribution map, present in Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:852861-1
WFO ID wfo-0000688386
COL ID 6HXBJ
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Ficus fraseri Ficus stenocarpa Ficus subglabra Ficus aspera var. abbreviata Ficus aspera var. subglabra Ficus proteus var. dentata Ficus proteus var. lobata Ficus stephanocarpa var. subglabra Ficus proteus