Ficus drupacea Thunb. 

Family: Moraceae

Common names (English):

 Brown-woolly fig          


Local name (Kannada):



Habit: Tree


Distribution: 

Indo-Malesia to Australia    


Use: Ornamental/ Medicinal

Description: 

Trees, 15-25 m high; aerial roots often numerous, arising in tufts from the stout branches; exudation milky. Leaves simple, alternate, subdistichous, ovate or elliptic-ovate, tender leaves tomentose below, glabrous above and scurfy tomentose beneath when mature, coriaceous; 3-5-ribbed from base. Flowers unisexual; figs, sessile, in axillary pairs, ellipsoid-globose, thick walled, tomentose without, at first covered by stout conical tomentose stipule; basal bracts 3, 2-6 mm, orbicular, concave, brown-pilose without, flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers disperse, numerous; tepals 3-4, free, brown; gall flowers pedicellate; tepals 3, free. Fig 1.5-2 cm across, orange red and purple when ripe; achene smooth.