Ficus pumila |
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climbing fig, creeping fig |
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Roots | adventitious, nodal. |
Branches | appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous in age. |
Leaves | blade oblong to ovate-elliptic or obovate, 4-10 × 2.5-4.5 cm, those of appressed climbing stems distichous, appressed, smaller (than those of loose, extended, flowering stems), spreading, leathery, base obtuse to rounded, margins recurved, apex obtuse to nearly acute; surfaces abaxially glabrous or puberulent on veins, adaxially glabrous, prominently reticulate; basal pair of veins 1; lateral pairs of veins 3-6, straight; secondary veins prominent. |
Woody | vines or sprawling shrubs, vines closely appressed to substrate, shrubs loosely ascending, evergreen. |
Syconia | solitary, pedunculate, green, oblong, obovoid, pyriform, or nearly globose, 3-4 × 3-4 cm, slightly pubescent but becoming glabrescent in age; peduncle thick, 8-15 mm; subtending bracts ovate, 5-7 mm; ostiole closed by 3 bracts, umbonate. |
Ficus pumila |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. |
Habitat | Disturbed thickets |
Elevation | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; native to s Asia; se Asia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Ficus pumila is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental on walls. Ficus scandens Lamarck is a nomenclaturally illegitimate name. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Moraceae > Ficus |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1060. (1753) |
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