Ficus benjamina L.

Type
Exotic
Family
Moraceae
Origin
E.India, S.China,S. E. Asia
Botanical Features

Evergreen trees, aerial roots few; bark grey, smooth; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules 10-12 mm long, paired, lateral, lanceolate; petiole 4-25 mm long, stout, glabrous, glandular at apex below; lamina 3-12 x 1.5-6 cm, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, base round, acute or subcordate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-18 pairs, parallel, prominent, secondary laterals prominent, inflorescence a syconia, syconium orange, rarely pink or dark purple; achenes smooth.

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