Ficus racemosa L.
Ficus racemosa L.
Family: Moraceae
Cluster fig, Gular fig, Country fig
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Australia and China
Use: Ornamental/ Medicinal
Description:
Deciduous trees, 15-25 m high; bole buttressed; bark surface reddish-brown or yellowish-brown, latex milky; young shoots and twigs finely white hairy, soon glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, obovate, apex narrowed, blunt or acute, stipules, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, often persistent on young shoots. Flowers unisexual; figs on short leafless branches or warty tubercles of trunk or on larger branches. Fig 2.5 x 2 cm, orange, pink or dark crimson.