Scientific Name : Ficus elastica Roxb. ex Hornem.
Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive
Habit : A large tree. Leaves : Large, elliptic, acute, shining, coriaceous, stipules large, caduceus, pinkish-yellow bud scales, lateral veins parallel. Inflorescence : Hypanthodium, receptacles axillary in pairs, ovoid-oblong, greenish-yellow when ripe. Flowers : Male flowers sepals 3, stamen 1. Gall flowers sessile, sepals 3, style short. Female flowers sessile, sepals 3, ovary superior, style short, stigma club-shaped. Fruit : Syconus red, globose. Flowering and Fruiting time : November-January Significance : It is originally cultivated as a source of rubber. It can yield a milky white latex which has been used in some cases to make rubber, but it should not be confused with the Para rubber tree, the main commercial source of latex for rubber making. It is also sometimes grown as an ornamental tree in the gardens.
Specimen Information
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Common Name(s):
रबराचो वड,Indian Rubber Fig
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Synonym(s):
Ficus elastica var. rubrinervis Sata. Ficus cordata Kunth & C.D.Bouché. Ficus clusiifolia Summerh. Macrophthalma elastica (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Gasp. Visiania elastica (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Gasp. Urostigma elasticum (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Miq. Stilpnophyllum elasticum (Roxb. ex Hornem.) Drury.
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Family:
Moraceae
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