Flora of North America species comparison

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Ficus aurea

Florida strangler, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig
Habit Trees, evergreen, to 20 m. Roots aerial, sometimes present on branches, pendent, sometimes reaching ground and forming pillar-roots.
Bark

gray, smooth.
Branchlets

yellow.
Leaves

blade ovate to oblong or obovate, 6-12(-15) × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse or shortly and bluntly acuminate;

surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous;

basal veins 1(-2) pairs;

lateral veins fewer than 10, if more these not uniformly spaced.
Syconia

usually paired, usually sessile, rarely with peduncles to 5 mm, red or yellow, obovoid, 6-15 mm diam., glabrous; subtending bracts 2, 3-5 mm, glabrous;

ostiole prominent, closed by 3 conspicuous scales.

Ficus aurea
Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Frequent in swamps, tropical hammocks, borders of mangrove swamps
Elevation 0-10 m (0-0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; West Indies
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Source FNA vol. 3.
Parent taxa Moraceae > Ficus
Sibling taxa
F. americana, F. benghalensis, F. benjamina, F. carica, F. citrifolia, F. elastica, F. microcarpa, F. pumila, F. religiosa
Synonyms F. aurea var. latifolia
Name authority Nuttall: N. Amer. Sylv. 2: 4, plate 43. (1846)
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