Ficus ti-koua Bureau

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Woody vines, prostrate, 0.3-0.4 m tall. Young branchlets occasionally straight, with long and thin adventitious roots, nodes enlarged. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, pubescent. Petiole 1-2(-6) cm; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 2-8 × 1.5-4 cm, thickly papery, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin shallowly toothed, apex acute; basal lateral veins short; secondary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midvein, abaxially with fine hairs among veins, adaxially with short spinose hairs. Figs axillary on procumbent stem, paired or clustered usually at least partly underground, dark red when mature, globose to ovoid, 1-2 cm in diam., surface with rounded tubercles, basally attenuated into a short stalk, sessile; involucral bracts thin. Male flowers: near apical pore; calyx lobes 2-6; stamens 1-3. Female flowers: shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes absent; ovary covered by a sticky membrane; style persistent, lateral, long; stigma 2-lobed. Achenes ovoid-globose, tuberculate. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul.
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

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Uses food medicinal
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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 ti-koua world distribution map, present in China, India, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:853834-1
WFO ID wfo-0000690606
COL ID 6HZKW
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Synonyms

Ficus bonatii Ficus nigrescens Ficus ti-koua