Ficus benghalensis |
Ficus aurea |
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banyan tree, Indian banyan |
Florida strangler, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig |
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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. | Trees, evergreen, to 20 m. Roots aerial, sometimes present on branches, pendent, sometimes reaching ground and forming pillar-roots. |
Bark | gray, smooth. |
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Branchlets | puberulent, glabrescent in age. |
yellow. |
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. |
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 | 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. |
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 benghalensis |
Ficus aurea |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed thickets | Frequent in swamps, tropical hammocks, borders of mangrove swamps |
Elevation | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; Asia (native to Pakistan and India) [Introduced in North America] |
FL; West Indies
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Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
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Synonyms | F. aurea var. latifolia | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753) | Nuttall: N. Amer. Sylv. 2: 4, plate 43. (1846) |
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