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Syconia (fruit) of the plant Ficus dammaropsis. Ficus dammaropsis, the Highland breadfruit, locally called kapiak in Tok Pisin, is a tropical dioecious [2] evergreen fig tree (subgenus Sycamorus, of the Mulberry Family with huge pleated leaves 60 cm (24 in) across and up to 90 cm (3 ft) in length.
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Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus.Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants (hemiepiphyte) or rocks (), F. rubiginosa matures into a tree 30 m (100 ft) high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk.
Ficus ingens, the red-leaved fig, is a fig species with an extensive range in the subtropical to dry tropical regions [3] of Africa and southern Arabia. [4] Despite its specific name, which means "huge", or "vast", it is usually a shrub or tree of modest proportions. [ 5 ]
Ficus (/ ˈ f aɪ k ə s / [2] or / ˈ f iː k ə s / [3] [4]) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone.
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The origin of the common fig is debated. [1] Some believe it to be indigenous to Western Asia and then spread by human activity throughout the Mediterranean. [2] Despite uncertainty about its geographic origins, most archaeobotanists agree that the domestication of the fig tree occurred around 6500 years ago in the Near East. [1]
Commonly known as the small-leaved fig, Ficus obliqua was described by German naturalist Georg Forster in 1786 based on type material collected in Vanuatu. Dutch botanist Friedrich Miquel described Urostigma eugenioides from Albany Island in Queensland in 1861, which was reclassified by Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller as Ficus eugenioides in 1867, and it was known as this ...