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Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Mulberry Family native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island where the subspecies F. m. columnaris is a banyan form covering 2.5 acres (a hectare) or more of ground.
Ficus (/ ˈ f aɪ k ə s / [2] or / ˈ f iː k ə s / [3] [4]) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs , they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone.
Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla), a tree with buttress roots that can reach 60 meters (200 ft) in height; Rusty fig (Ficus rubiginosa), also known as Port Jackson fig or little-leaf fig; Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina), also known as Benjamin's fig, and often sold in stores as just ficus
This is a list of Ficus species, plants in the Moraceae family. ... Ficus maclellandii King; Ficus macrophylla Pers. Ficus macropodocarpa H.Lév. & Vaniot;
Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) is usually a small to medium-size tree (20-40 feet tall) with compound leaves that have five oval-shaped leaflets. Closely related is the common horsechestnut ( A ...
Ficus: fig trees; Ficus altissima: council tree Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus aspera: lofty fig; clown fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus aurea: Florida strangler fig Moraceae (mulberry family) 876 Ficus auriculata: Roxburgh fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus benghalensis: banyan fig; Bengal fig; Indian fig; East Indian fig; Indian banyan
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These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An original support tree can sometimes die, so that the strangler fig becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow central core. [ 4 ]