Ficus pumila |
Ficus carica |
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climbing fig, creeping fig |
common fig, edible fig, fiku, piku |
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Habit | Shrubs or small trees, deciduous, to 5 m. | |
Roots | adventitious, nodal. |
not adventitious. |
Bark | grayish, slightly roughened. |
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Branches | appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous in age. |
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Branchlets | pubescent. |
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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. |
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. |
Woody | vines or sprawling shrubs, vines closely appressed to substrate, shrubs loosely ascending, evergreen. |
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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. |
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. |
Ficus pumila |
Ficus carica |
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Phenology | Flowering all year. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Disturbed thickets | Disturbed sites |
Elevation | 0-10 m (0-0 ft) | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; native to s Asia; se Asia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; FL; MA; NC; SC; Mexico; West Indies; native to 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.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Moraceae > Ficus | Moraceae > Ficus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1060. (1753) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1059. (1753) |
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