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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Ficus variegata Blume (MORACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Common Red Stem-Fig

Description

Medium deciduous tree to 40 m tall with conical then rounded fairly dense crown. Leaves 9-25 cm long, broadly ovate to ovate lanceolate, trinerved base. Figs 1.8-3.8 cm in dense clusters on trunk and main branches on long stalks, pear-shaped, green turning rose red, often streaked.


Ecology

Common in open country. India

Distribution

, S China, whole of SE Asia except New Guinea, and Australia (Queensland).