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Ficus hispida
Hairy Fig
| Family |
| Moraceae |
| Genus |
| Ficus |
| Species |
| hispida |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Height |
| 10-17 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| Sri Lanka, India, southern China to Australia. |
| Leaf Description |
| Oppositely arranged leaves, on 1-4 cm long stalks, are ovate, oblong, or obovate-oblong, 10-25 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, thickly papery, covered with coarse hairs. Leaf base is rounded to wedgeshaped, margin is entire or bluntly toothed, tip is pointed. |
| Fruit Description |
| Figs appear in leaf axil on normal leafy shoots, sometimes on leafless branchlets, solitary or paired, yellow or red when mature, top-shaped, 1.2-3 cm in diameter. Figs are covered with short hairs |
| Notable Specimens |
| Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden, Luang Prabang, Laos. |
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