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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.
Ficus macrophylla: Moreton Bay fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus mauritiana: Mauritian fig; Maldive fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus microcarpa: Chinese banyan tree; laurel fig; fig laurel Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus mysorensis: Mysore fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus nekbudu: Zulu fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus neriifolia
This is a list of Ficus species, plants in the Moraceae family. ... Ficus maclellandii King; Ficus macrophylla Pers. Ficus macropodocarpa H.Lév. & Vaniot;
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
The Whittier City Council voted on Tuesday night to move forward with razing 83 ficus trees as part of a redesign of its commercial center despite backlash.
A banyan, also spelled banian (/ ˈ b æ n j ən / BAN-yən), [1] is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. [2] This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte , [ 3 ] i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its ...
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