Ficus obtusifolia Kunth

Amate (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Trees to about 20 m. tall. Twigs 5-6 mm. in diameter, glabrous or pubescent, with thick wrinkled grey periderm. Stipules to 30 mm. long, deltoid, glabrous. Lamina 3.5-12 cm. wide X 9-25 cm. long, oblanceolate to broadly obovate, glabrous; apex rounded or bluntly acute; base cuneate; lateral veins 5-11 pairs, departing from the midrib at an angle from 200-400; basal veins departing from the midrib at an angle from 40?-500; intercostals not, or scarcely, prominent. Petiole 10-30 mm. long, 1/6-1/9 the length of the lamina. Figs 15-20 mm. in diameter, globose, glabrous or minutely puberulent, borne among the leaves; color not noted; peduncle obsolete to 8 mm. long, puberulent; basal bracts two, 4-7 mm. long, semicircular, connate, sometimes more or less split, finely pubescent; orifice 3-5 mm. in diameter, flat or somewhat umbonate.
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A fig. It is a tree. It can grow 8-25 m tall. The fruit is round and 2 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support epiphyte hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 20.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in lowland forest. It grows from sea level to 1,000 m above sea level. It can grow in wet and in seasonally dry areas.
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Lowland forest formation from sea level to elevations of 1,000 metres, in both very wet areas and in seasonally very dry areas.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses food material medicinal
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Ache(Stomach) (unspecified), Stomach (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 -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Ficus obtusifolia leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Ficus obtusifolia leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Ficus obtusifolia leaf picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Fruit

Ficus obtusifolia fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Ficus obtusifolia fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)
Ficus obtusifolia fruit picture by Nelson Zamora Villalobos (cc-by-nc)

Distribution

Ficus obtusifolia world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, El Salvador, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Ficus obtusifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:853317-1
WFO ID wfo-0000689513
COL ID 6HYN9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Urostigma gardnerianum Urostigma involutum Urostigma bonplandianum Ficus chiapensis Ficus floresina Ficus gardneriana Ficus mattogrossensis Ficus bonplandiana Ficus involuta Ficus obtusifolia Ficus clusiifolia Ficus proctor-cooperi Ficus pascuorum