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Ficus sagittata

Botanic Family

Moraceae

Author

Vahl

Propagation

A.C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, has a variegated cultivar

Offspring

Ficus sagittata 'Variegata'

Common Names

• Yang ru rong (Pinyin)
• Rooting Fig

Geographical Habitats

• N. Australia
• Bangladesh
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Guangdong
• Hainan - China
• Andaman Islands
• Assam
• Sikkim - India
• Palau
• Java
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Johore - Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor Leste
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• montane forest
• lowland forest
• coastal forest

Flowering Times

• Dec-Mar (China) Apr
• May
• Oct (Philippines)

Fruiting Times

Many-branched tall root-climbing liana or tree with axillary inflorescences, epiphytic vine when young maturing into a tree, with 15mm diameter reddish-orange fruits or dark green with light brown lenticels, pubescent when young, axillary receptacles or flowers with reddish tinges to 10mm long, branchlets brown-pubescent, glabrous leaves except scattered bristles on mid-rub beneath

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• Bodkin
• Botanicus
• Elmer
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• USNH
• GBS
• IFV