Ficus carica |
Ficus citrifolia |
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common fig, edible fig, fiku, piku |
wild banyan tree |
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Habit | Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, to 5 m. Roots not adventitious. | Shrubs or trees, evergreen, to 15 m. Roots adventitious, aerial, hanging. |
Bark | grayish, slightly roughened. |
brownish, smooth. |
Branchlets | pubescent. |
grayish, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. |
Leaves | blade obovate, nearly orbiculate, or ovate, palmately 3-5-lobed, 15-30 × 15-30 cm, base cordate, margins undulate or irregularly dentate, apex acute to obtuse; surfaces abaxially and adaxially scabrous-pubescent; basal veins 5 pairs; lateral veins irregularly spaced. |
blade ovate to elliptic or obovate, 3-14 × 1.5-8 cm, nearly leathery, base usually cordate or rounded to obtuse, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more than 10, not uniformly spaced. |
Syconia | solitary, sessile, green, yellow, or red-purple, pyriform, 5-8 cm, pubescent; peduncle ca. 1 cm; subtending bracts ovate, 1-2 mm; ostiole with 3 subtending bracts, umbonate. |
solitary or paired, pedunculate, yellow or red, spotted, globose to globose-ovoid, 8-18 mm diam., glabrous; peduncles to ca. 15 mm; subtending bracts 2, shortly connate, deltate or broadly rounded, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous or puberulent; ostiole subtended by 3 bracts, bracts ovate, ca. 1 × 2-3 mm, slightly umbonate. |
Ficus carica |
Ficus citrifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed sites | Tropical hammocks |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; FL; MA; NC; SC; Mexico; West Indies; native to Asia [Introduced in North America]
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FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies |
Discussion | Ficus carica is known to escape in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, although no specific localities are documented. Ficus carica was first known from Caria in southwestern Asia. It is cultivated for its edible fruit and becomes established outside of cultivation only sporadically in the United States. It can sometimes be found persisting around old habitations and old orchards. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ficus citrifolia is the large and graceful banyan tree that is planted for shade around verandas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Moraceae > Ficus | Moraceae > Ficus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | F. brevifolia, F. laevigata, F. laevigata var. brevifolia, F. populifolia, F. populnea var. floridana, F. populnea var. brevifolia | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753) | Miller: Gard. Dict. ed. 8. (1768) |
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