Filed As:
Moraceae
Ficus cassidyana Elmer
Moraceae
Ficus cassidyana Elmer
Location:
Philippines. Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, Mount Burebid. Alt. 838m. (2749 ft.)
Philippines. Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, Mount Burebid. Alt. 838m. (2749 ft.)
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.
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.
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.]
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
NY Barcode: 4374242
GUID: efed61fa-e449-4605-94ac-5aff130bc3bd