Ficus crassipes explained

Ficus crassipes, commonly known as the round-leaved banana fig is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has large brownish cylindrical syconia.[1]

Description

Ficus crassipes is a monoecious tree which grows up to 20m (70feet) tall. Its leaves are 76– long and 53– wide. Its syconia are yellowish to orange-brown to purple in colour, 43– long and 15– in diameter. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Dixon . Dale J. . 2003 . A taxonomic revision of the Australian Ficus species in the section Malvanthera (Ficus subg. Urostigma: Moraceae) . Telopea . 10 . 1 . 125–53 . 10.7751/telopea20035611 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091004221118/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/72713/Tel10Dix125.pdf . dead . 4 October 2009 .