Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Moraceae | Genus: Ficus | Species:
Ficus pumila Linn.
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Habit |
Leaf |
Flower |
Fruit |
Bark |
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| Synonym | Ficus hanceana Maxim. | Flower Color | Greenish |
| Common Name | Flower Type | Hypanthodium | |
| English / Trade Name | Climbing Fig, Creeping Fig, Creeping Ficus | Flowering Period | Jan-Dec |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Fruiting Period | Jan-Dec | |
| Altitude | Up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Syconium |
| Habit | Climber | Fruit Details | Fruit a hypanthodium (Syconus), obovoid turbinate, purple-black, glabrous to glaucous |
| Habitat | Evergreen to deciduous forests; and cultivated.Plains to high altitude | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Cultivated, native of East Asiatic Region. China, India, Japan, Vietnam | Bark Details | Greenish brown in colour and smooth in texture. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary, Manimajara and Daria, Sector 19, Sector 26, Sector 33, Sector 38 | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Oblong | ||
| Description of Species | Scandent climbing shrub, often rooting at the nodes, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, dimorphic, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, cordate at the base, entire, obtuse to subacute, glabrescent above, finely white-villous beneath, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, strongly bulging below, intercostals present, slightly bulged, stipules hairy. cystoliths present on lower side. Flower syconium, generally solitary axillary, sessile to shortly pedunculate, subgloboae to pyriform or obovoid-turbinate, greenish yellow, minutely villose to glabrescent, subtended by ovate-lanceolate, appressed hairy basal bracts, apical orifice umbonate, internal bristles copious, short. Male flowers large, numerous, in whorls, stamens 2-3. Female flowers sessile to long pedicelled, ovary sessile with long, simple lateral style. Fruit a hypanthodium (Syconus), obovoid turbinate, purple-black, glabrous to glaucous. | Leaf Details | Leaves alternate, dimorphic, coriaceous, ovate-oblong, 5-8 × 2.5-5 cm across, cordate at the base, entire, obtuse to subacute, glabrescent |
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