Monographs Details:
Authority:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:

Moraceae
Scientific Name:

Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Description:

Species Description - Tree to 10 m tall, sometimes a strangler, producing abundant white latex; bark light gray. Leaf blades 4-20 x 2-12 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate or seldom oblanceolate, glabrous, the apex acuminate or shortly acuminate, the base obtuse, cordate or rarely truncate, the margins entire; petioles 1-7 cm long; stipules reddish, glabrous. Syconium short-peduncled, globose, depressed-globose, or obovoid, 6-12 mm diam., yellowish green, red-spotted, becoming red at maturity.

Discussion:

Common name: white fig.

Distribution:

Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| West Indies| Florida United States of America North America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America|