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Scientific Name : Ficus benjamina L.

Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive

Habit : A large evergreen tree with umbrella-like crown and drooping branches. Leaves : Large, elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded at base, entire along margins, coriaceous, glabrous, stipules lanceolate. Inflorescence : Hypanthodium, receptacle ssolitary, sessile or with a short, thick peduncle, subglobose to pyriform, yellow to orange on ripening. Flowers : Male flowers shortly pedicellate, abundant. Stamen 1. Female flowers sessile. Gall flowers pedicellate. Fruit : Syconus Flowering and Fruiting Time : February-April Significance : It is used mostly as an ornamental tree.

Specimen Information

  • Common Name(s):

    नांदरूक, Weeping Fig, Golden Fig

  • Synonym(s):

    Ficus cuspidatocaudata Hayata. Ficus comosa Roxb. Ficus benjamina var. nuda (Miq.) M.F.Barrett. Ficus benjamina subsp. comosa (Roxb.) Panigrahi & Murti. Urostigma benjaminum (L.) Miq.

  • Family:

    Moraceae

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  • Created By:

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    Botany Department (DVP College, Nimgaon Sawa)

  • Created On:

    19-08-2022

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    Phone: 9960072282
    Email: [email protected]

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