Ficus microcarpa L.
Ficus microcarpa L.
Family: Moraceae
Chinese banyan, Indian Laurel
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Pacific Islands
Use: Ornamental/ Medicinal
Description:
Evergreen trees, usually epiphytic, to 18 m high, aerial roots numerous, slender, arching from the branches; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic-ovate, elliptic-obovate or obovate, margin entire, undulate, coriaceous; 3-5-ribbed from base. Flowers unisexual; figs, sessile, in axillary pairs, flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers numerous; sessile or shortly pedicelled; tepals 3, stamen 1; female flowers sessile, sepals 3. Fig 8-10 mm across, purple with yellow shades when ripe; achenes smooth.