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Family: Moraceae	Genus: Ficus	Species: Ficus retusa Linn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Ficus truncata (Miq.) Miq., Perula retusa (L.) Raf., Urostigma retusum (L.) Gasp, Urostigma truncatum Miq.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Indian Laurel Fig	Flower Type	Hypanthodium
English / Trade Name	Indian Laurel Fig	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name		Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Up to 1000 m	Fruit Type	Syconium
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Syconus fruit in pairs, axillary, sub-globose, yellowish when ripe, with 3 broad ovate persistent basal bracts. Achenes ovoid or obovoid.
Habitat	Evergreen forests and swamps.	Bark Type	Rugged
Distribution	Asia: India	Bark Details	Bright green underneath the corky layer
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sukhna Choe Reserve Forest & Sukhna Lake , Sector 26	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Large evergreen umbrageous tree, often epiphytic, forming a tangled mass with aerial roots and horizontal branches. Bark grayish, covered with lenticels bars, bright green underneath the corky layer. Leaves ovate-elliptic or rhomboid, entire, acute or short-acuminate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous. lateral nerves 8- 10 on either half, base 3-nerved, stipules about 0.5 in. long, lanceolate. Male flowers numerous, Perianth segments 3, oblanceolate, spathulate, stamens 1. Gall flowers-perianth segments 3, Female flowers perianth minute, ovary smooth. style short, stigma clavate or cylindric. Receptacle 2-3 in. across, sessile. Syconus fruit in pairs, axillary, sub-globose, yellowish when ripe, with 3 broad ovate persistent basal bracts. Achenes ovoid or obovoid.	Leaf Details	Leaves ovate-elliptic or rhomboid, entire, acute or short-acuminate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, lateral nerves 8-10 on either half, base 3-nerved, stipules lanceolate.

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