Ficus trigonata L.

  • 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 trigonata L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Tree to 12 m tall, producing abundant white latex; bark light gray, with many lenticels; branches sparsely pubescent to hirtellous. Leaf blades 2-13 x 1.5-7 cm, coriaceous, elliptic, oblong, or obovate, glabrous, the apex rounded to obtuse, the base obtuse, rounded, to subcordate, the margins entire; petioles 0.5-2 cm long; stipules yellowish green, turning brown, sericeous to hirsute. Syconium short-peduncled, globose to depressed-globose, 8-18 mm diam., yellowish green, the operculum conspicuously rimmed.

  • Discussion

    Cultivated species: Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg, commonly known as the breadfruit tree, is sometimes cultivated on the island

  • Distribution

    A common tree of moist forests. Bordeaux Mountain (A1912), Cruz Bay Quarter along Center Line Road (A2392). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; throughout tropical America.

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