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The plant has oblate syconium that are up to 4 cm (1.6 in) wide, covered with yellow pubescence, and emerge from the trunk or old branches of the tree. [3] [4] Ficus auriculata is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals. [5] On ripening, the fruits turn from light yellow to purple. The fruit is a fleshy receptacle.
The tree's Latin name, torminalis, means "good for colic". The name "chequers" may have been derived from the ancient symbol of a pub being the chequer-board (as the fruit were once used to flavour beer) [10] or the spotted pattern of the fruit, [11] though some suggest it comes from the pattern of the bark on old trees. [citation needed]
Foliage and fruit. It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) (rarely to 30 m or 98 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) diameter, though it can also be a shrub 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) tall on exposed sites. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees. The winter buds are green, with a ...
The plant is deciduous over part of its range, [14] but evergreen in most locales. [15] Growing from multiple trunks, it reaches a height of 4.6–9.1 metres (15–30 feet). [13] The bark is whitish gray. [16] The base of each leaf is accompanied by a pair of thorns on the branch. [17] The dark brown fruit is a seed pod. [16]
The flowers are inconspicuous, solitary or clustered, with no petals. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants, though some female plants are parthenogenetic. The fruit is an edible bright yellow or orange globose berry 2.5–4 cm diameter, with the skin and flesh of a uniform colour and containing several small seeds ...
The oils, as well as poultices made from leaves and flowers, are also commonly used for traditional medicine. [16] [12] The leaves contain compounds that are poisonous to fish and can be used as fish poison. [16] The sap of the tree is poisonous and is used to make poison arrows in Samoa. [20] The mature fruit is poisonous enough to use as rat ...
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The very fragrant flowers, large and violet-blue in colour [14] are produced before the leaves in early spring, on panicles 10–30 centimetres (4–12 in) long, with a tubular purple corolla4–6 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long resembling a foxglove flower. The fruit is a dry egg-shaped capsule 3–4 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 ...