| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Moraceae |
| Local Name | Peraal |
| Trade Name | Banyan |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Spreading trees, aerial roots numerous from the branches; bark greyish-white, smooth, exfoliating in irregular flakes; blaze dull red; exudation milky latex; young parts softly pubescent; branchlets light brownish. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules lateral, 2-2.5 cm long, sheathing, white-puberulous, deciduous, leaving annular scar, glandular at apex below; lamina 10-20 x 5-12.5 cm, ovate, base round or subcordate, apex obtuse, margin entire, 3-7-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 4-6 pairs, inflorescence a syconia, syconium 1.5-2 cm across, ripening orange to red, achenes 2 x 1.5 mm, globose-ellipsoid, dark brown. |
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