Fascinating Ficus
A fast-growing big evergreen epiphytic tree with slender aerial roots and trunk
with a diameter of up to 1- 1.5 meter which can reach a height of up to 10- 15 meters.
The bark is smooth and dark. The leaves are dark green, glossy, leathery, and
elliptic, ovate, or rounded in shape, with short and blunt tapering ends and a small
petiole. Leaves are 8 to 13 cm long with tapering tips and a 5 to 11 mm long petiole.
The barks are grey to dark brown in colour, with a fruity odour when young, a
bitter avor when matured. Male and female owers are abundant and widely
distributed. Fruit is stalkless, yellow or reddish.
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