Flora of North America species comparison

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Ficus benghalensis

banyan tree, Indian banyan
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
Phenology Flowering all year.
Habitat Disturbed thickets
Elevation 0-10 m [0-30 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Asia (native to Pakistan and India) [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Parent taxa Moraceae > Ficus
Sibling taxa
F. americana, F. aurea, F. benjamina, F. carica, F. citrifolia, F. elastica, F. microcarpa, F. pumila, F. religiosa
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753)
Source FNA vol. 3. Treatment author: Richard P. Wunderlin.
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