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Experiments carried out on fruiting Ficus auriculata trees at the Calcutta Botanic Gardens by the then Superintendent George King and his Botanic Garden colleagues described in King in 1897 which was the first detailed explanation of how the dioecious figs were pollinated by fig wasps which bred in the figs of male trees and then flew to female ...
Mountain fig tree in Zibad. The common fig tree has been cultivated since ancient times and grows wild in dry and sunny locations with deep and fresh soil, and in rocky locations that are at sea level to 1,700 metres in elevation. It prefers relatively porous and freely draining soil, and can grow in nutritionally poor soil.
How to be a Fig, Daniel H. Janzen, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 10, 1979 (1979), pp. 13–51 Phenological patterns of Ficus citrifolia (Moraceae) in a seasonal humid-subtropical region in Southern Brazil, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira, Efraim Rodrigues and Ayres de Oliveira Menezes Jr., Plant Ecology, Volume 188, Number 2 ...
Ficus benjamina, commonly known as weeping fig, benjamin fig [3] or ficus tree, and often sold in stores as just ficus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Asia and Australia. [4] It is the official tree of Bangkok. The species is also naturalized in the West Indies and in the states of Florida and Arizona in the ...
It is a medium-sized tree which grows to a height of 24–27 metres (79–89 ft) In dry areas and up to 32 metres (105 ft) tall in wetter areas. It is a fig tree belonging to the group of trees known as strangler figs , which is because its seeds can germinate on other trees and grow to strangle and eventually kill the host tree.
A non-climbing fig, the trunk has a smooth, straight bole, with smooth bark and fluted with buttress roots. The leaf veins are coloured yellow, and the entire leaf becomes bright yellow after it falls from the tree. This is a tree with buttress roots that ranges from 8–40 m (26–131 ft) tall. [6]
Ficus lutea is a tree that grows up to 25 m (82 ft) in height, its crown is large and spreading, while the bark is brownish to dark grey; when in open areas, the trunk is commonly short with buttressed roots but in forest environments, the trunks tend to be longer. [2]
Ficus cyathistipula is an evergreen tree, growing to 5 metres (16 ft) in height. It has dark and flaky bark. The trunk is thin and branches readily, [4] and may form adventitious roots for support. [3] The dark, glabrous and leathery leaves are up to 7 cm wide and some 20 cm long. [2] Their venation is limited to some 5 to 8 lateral nerves. [4]