Ficus stolonifera King

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, brown hirsute to hirtellous or strig(ill)ose, the longer stiff hairs (often with an echinate base and) intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, with (small) nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous (to subopposite); lamina oblong to subobovate, 8-34 by 3.5-17 cm, asymmetric (to nearly symmetric), chartaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded (or at the broad side) cordate, margin denticulate to dentate (towards the apex); upper surface hispidulous to strigillose, ± scabrous, on the midrib to hirtellous, lower surface brown(ish) hirtellous or strigillose, the longer stiff hairs (often with an echinate base and) intermixed with (sparse to dense) shorter and softer white hairs, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (5-)7-12 pairs, none or some of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation (rather loosely) scalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands (in some of the leaves) in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-1.2 cm long, brown hirtellous, the longer stiff hairs (often with an echinate base and) intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-4 cm long, white appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, partly (on the keel) brown strigose to subhirsute, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous on up to 7 m long, sparsely branched, stolons with up to 4 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.1-0.3 cm long; basal bracts 3(-8), verticillate (or subverticillate), 1.5-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, glabrous or brown puberulous, with few short (suborbicular) lateral bracts, at maturity reddish, apex ± convex; ostiole 2-3 mm diam., slightly impressed; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a tree. It grows 15 m tall. It can grow to 27 m tall. It has long root like runners that produce figs. The leaves are large and slightly uneven. There are teeth along the edge. The figs are reddish with white dots. .
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality dioecy
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in Sabah and Sarawak in Borneo. It grows up to 1,200 m above sea level in Sarawak.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

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Edible fruits leaves
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Distribution

Ficus stolonifera world distribution map, present in Brunei Darussalam and Malaysia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:853751-1
WFO ID wfo-0000690423
COL ID 6HXSQ
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Synonyms

Ficus stolonifera