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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Ficus racemosa - L.
Family
Moraceae
Common Name
Gular, Umbar, Cluster figs tree
Habit
Tree
Synonym
Ficus glomerata Roxb.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Red
Key Characters
Receplacles figs on short, leafless, warted branches.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Monochlamydae
 
Series :
Unisexuales
 
Order :
Plant Description

Tree without aerial roots; bark brownish grey; leaves alternate to subopposite, membranous, 4-6 pair, elliptic, oblong, tapering to a blunt point, base cuneate to subrounded, nerves glabrous or softly pubescent; stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent; receptacles shortly peduncled on short leafless scaly branches, figs all bearing male, female and gall flowers, smooth, pyriform or subglobose, orange-red when ripe; bracts-3, ovate-triangular; male flowers sessile, tepal-3-4, membranous, inflated, enclosing the stamens near the mouth; gall flowers pedicelled; female and gall flowers intermixed, subsessile, tepals 3-4, lanceolate, toothed, style short, lateral, stigma clavate, much more numerous than the female, many without perianth; gall oavry ovoid, rough; achenes glanulate.

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