Filed As:
Moraceae
Ficus gigantifolia Merr.
Moraceae
Ficus gigantifolia Merr.
Location:
Philippines. Cabadbaran (Mt Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Island of Mindanao, Catañgan creek. Alt. 381m. (1250 ft.)
Philippines. Cabadbaran (Mt Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Island of Mindanao, Catañgan creek. Alt. 381m. (1250 ft.)
Description:
Medium sized tree; trunk 2 feet thick, 35 feet high, terete, crooked, with main branches from the middle; weed dingy white, odorless and without taste, very soft; bark very dark brown, lenticelled or excrescent, thick, latex abundant, yellowish except the epidermis; main branches few ascending, only sparingly re-branched; leaves alternating!y crowded toward the ends of the ascendingly curved and 1/8 to 3/4 inch thick twigs, mostly horizontal, sub-coriaceous, flat, much deeper green beneath; figs usually in pairs from the leaf axils, globose, 1 inch thick, shining green and with whitish spots, when fully ripe on the tree vinosus, sessile, normally subtended by 3 slenderly acuminately pointed green bracts, florets red, the umbilicus covered by 3 small and thick bracts.
Medium sized tree; trunk 2 feet thick, 35 feet high, terete, crooked, with main branches from the middle; weed dingy white, odorless and without taste, very soft; bark very dark brown, lenticelled or excrescent, thick, latex abundant, yellowish except the epidermis; main branches few ascending, only sparingly re-branched; leaves alternating!y crowded toward the ends of the ascendingly curved and 1/8 to 3/4 inch thick twigs, mostly horizontal, sub-coriaceous, flat, much deeper green beneath; figs usually in pairs from the leaf axils, globose, 1 inch thick, shining green and with whitish spots, when fully ripe on the tree vinosus, sessile, normally subtended by 3 slenderly acuminately pointed green bracts, florets red, the umbilicus covered by 3 small and thick bracts.
Habitat:
in wet rocky soil, dense woods.
in wet rocky soil, dense woods.
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: 04374748
GUID: 8a916d37-75e3-4e1d-ab58-1f4e5a3e02b0
NY Barcode: 04374748
GUID: 8a916d37-75e3-4e1d-ab58-1f4e5a3e02b0