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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.
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
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.
Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus.Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants (hemiepiphyte) or rocks (), F. rubiginosa matures into a tree 30 m (100 ft) high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk.
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 ...
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.
The huge Ficus macrophylla, which is an emblem and a well-known attraction of the modern garden, was imported from Norfolk Island , in 1845. Today's area, some 10 hectares, was reached in 1892, following successive extensions.
Rice-fish systems are the most common type of integrated rice-field polyculture. However, some 19 other models exist, including rice-duck , rice- crayfish , rice- crab and rice- turtle . [ 3 ] From the 1980s on, the diversity of Chinese rice polycultures developed rapidly, involving new species such as the Chinese mitten crab , the red swamp ...