Ficus benghalensis |
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banyan tree, Indian banyan |
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Habit | Trees, evergreen, to 30 m. |
Roots | aerial, often descending to ground level and forming pillar-roots Bark of trunks and older branches brown, smooth. |
Branchlets | puberulent, glabrescent in age. |
Leaves | blade ovate, 10-30 × 7-20 cm, leathery, base cordate, margins entire, apex obtuse; surfaces abaxially puberulent, adaxially glabrous; basal veins (2-)3-4 pairs, 1/3-1/2 length of blade, reticulations regular; lateral veins 5-6(-7) pairs. |
Syconia | paired, sessile, orange or red, depressed-globose, 1.5-2 × 2-2.5 mm, pubescent; subtending bracts ovate, 3-7 mm, puberulous; ostiole closed by 3 flat or nearly umbonate apical bracts 3-4 mm wide. |
Ficus benghalensis |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. |
Habitat | Disturbed thickets |
Elevation | 0-10 m [0-30 ft] |
Distribution |
FL; Asia (native to Pakistan and India) [Introduced in North America] |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753) |
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