Ficus pumila L.
Ficus pumila L.
Family: Moraceae
Creeping Fig
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Climber
Distribution:
East Asia and Indo-China
Use: Ornamental
Description:
Climbers with clinging roots and white to brownish short hairs on young shoots. Leaves dimorphic, ovate-oblong, 3-5-costate at the cordate base, entire. Fig on erect fruiting branches, generally solitary, axillary, sessile to shortly pedunculate, subglobose to pyriform or obovoid-turbinate, greenish yellow, minutely villose to glabrescent. Male flowers: numerous, in several whorls; sepals 4-6; stamens 2-3. Female flowers: sessile to long-pedicelled; ovary sessile. Figs obovoid turbinate, 3.5-7 cm long, purple-black, glabrous to glaucous.