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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 aculeata A.Cunn. ex Miq. Ficus adelpha K.Schum. & Lauterb. Ficus adenosperma Miq. Ficus adhatodifolia Schott; Ficus adolphi-friderici Mildbr. Ficus aequatorialis Dugand; Ficus albert-smithii Standl. Ficus albipila (Miq.) King; Ficus albomaculata C.C.Berg; Ficus allutacea Blume; Ficus alongensis Gagnep. Ficus altissima Blume; Ficus ...
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
Wild rice, also called manoomin, mnomen, psíŋ, Canada rice, Indian rice, or water oats, is any of four species of grasses that form the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them. The grain was historically and is still gathered and eaten in North America and, to a lesser extent, China , [ 2 ] where the plant's stem is used ...
Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree located in Santa Barbara, California is believed to be the largest Ficus macrophylla in the United States. [1] An Australian seaman visiting Santa Barbara in 1876 presented a seedling of an Australian Moreton Bay fig tree to a local girl who planted it at 201 State Street.
Federal regulators have elevated a recall involving 27,600 bags of wild rice from a Northern California farm distributed to seven states due to concerns that the product may contain a foreign ...
Vulnerable (VU) species are considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild. As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 5430 Vulnerable (VU) plant species. [1] 25% of all evaluated plant species are listed as Vulnerable. The IUCN also lists 244 subspecies and 235 varieties as Vulnerable.