Common in most of the islands The wood has moderate strength and durability. The leaf juice is applied externally on old chronic wounds. The leaf extract possesses anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. in
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The wood has moderate strength and durability. The leaf juice is applied externally on old chronic wounds. The leaf extract possesses anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. in
family
Moraceae
synonym
Ficus indica Willd., Ficus tjiela Miq.
description
Large trees, to 25 m high; aerial roots few; bark greenish-grey, smooth; blaze yellow; exudation milky. Leaves × simple, alternate; 5-14 2.5-9 cm, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, base round, truncate or acute, apex acute, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from base; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs. Stipule to 2.5 cm, lateral, lanceolate; petiole 15- 50 mm long, glandular at apex below. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, monoecious, geminate, axillary, subsessile, depressed globose; flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers dispense, few; sessile; tepals 2 in pedicellate flowers and 3 in sessile flowers; female flower sessile, tepals 3-4; ovary superior, bean shaped; style filiform, 2 mm; gall flowers similar to female; pedicellate; syconium red or purple when ripe; achenes smooth.