Filed As:

Moraceae
Ficus cassidyana Elmer
All Determinations:

Ficus cassidyana Elmer

Location:

Philippines. Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, Mount Burebid. Alt. 838m. (2749 ft.)
Collector(s):

A. D. E. Elmer
Description:

Shrub like trees, stem 16 feet high, or less, 2 or 3 from the same root, branches from below the middle, 3 to 5 inches thick; wood soft, pale white, odorless, with a faint sweet taste; bark smooth, or only thinly checked, yellowish and more or less mottled with gray blotches; limbs widely spreading, only sparingly rebranched, the rather slender ultimate ones curvingly erect; leaves membranous, nearly horizontally spreading, the larger ones 1 1/2 foot long and 1 foot wide, pale or yellowish green especially so along the nerves beneath; figs upon branched densely bracteate 6 inches long flexible tubercles along the stem; peduncle 1 to 2 inches long, terete, green; figs 3 inch across, flatly obovoid, very dark green, covered with grayish brown hairs and minute light brown colored lenticels; "Basicong". Later some plants were seen with fruits 4-5 inches across.
Habitat:

in woods on a sharp ridge. mixed with bamboos.
Other:

Specimen Notes: [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2024.]
Identifiers:

NY Barcode: 4374242
GUID: efed61fa-e449-4605-94ac-5aff130bc3bd
Distribution:

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