Ficus virens (White Fig)
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White Fig
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White Fig
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WHITE FIG FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
White Fig
Other Names
Curtain Fig
Description
White Fig is a large fig with edible fruit. The trunk is gray. It is sopmetimes seen growing round other trees as a strangler fig. The aerial roots thicken when they make contact with the ground. The leaves are about 8cm - 19 cm long and 3cm - 6cm wide with pale midrib.
Habitat
subtropical rainforest
Distribution
Queensland, north eastern New South Wales, Australia. Also south east Asia
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Rosales | | Family: | Moraceae | | Genus: | Ficus | | Species: | virens | | Common Name: | White Fig |
Relatives in same Genus
Ficus coronata
Ficus macrophylla
Ficus platypoda
Ficus watkinsiana
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