Ficus carica L.

 
  • Family : MORACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Moraceae
  • Species : Ficus carica
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ficus carica L.
  • Common name : Fig Tree, Edible Fig Tree
  • Vernacular name : Anjeer (Hin.); Anjura (Kan.)
  • Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 1273
  • Key identification features : A small deciduous tree containing milky sap. Bark is silvery-grey. Leaves are deeply-lobed, scabrid, with small stipules. Fruit is green when young turning dark-purple upon maturity.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Native : Middle-East
  • Comments : Tree is the source of the common edible fig. 'Carica' meaning papaya is used to refer to the leaves being shaped like papaya tree leaves.
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Distribution Locality : Mysore
  • Floras referred : Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore

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  • Jose Luis Lopez 2018-10-29 01:28:55

    First of all congratulate you for your magnificent page with good descriptions and beautiful and guiding photographs. I do not know many of the ficus species of India and your page helps me to know them better. However, I do know the trees of Ficus carica well, since I live in the Mediterranean where this tree is as abundant as Ficus benghalensis or religious it is in your country, since it is a very cultivated tree as a producer of edible figs. We also have it in the wild called "cabrahigo" and that originally was the pollinating male tree of the cultivated varieties that now mature parthenocarpically. My writing is to warn you of an error in the photographs that you attach in the section dedicated to this tree, since the ones that show do not correspond to Ficus carica. I trust that you will take due note to correct the error and thus improve the good presentation of your page. By the way, I would like to know what species belong the beautiful photographs that appear in that section. A greeting from Spain
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