Planted in gardens and as an avenue tree The plant has high ornamental value. The very young leaf tips are eaten as a salad. A decoction of the aerial rootlets is used as a vulnerary. Latex can be used for all applications of natural rubber.
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uses
The plant has high ornamental value. The very young leaf tips are eaten as a salad. A decoction of the aerial rootlets is used as a vulnerary. Latex can be used for all applications of natural rubber.
family
Moraceae
synonym
Ficus skytinodermis Summerh.
description
A large evergreen tree with Th dense crown and spreading branches. A Trunk massive, bark greyish or reddish × as brown. Leaves simple, 10-25 8-15 cm, glossy above, oblong or elliptic, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtusely acuminate; petiole 2.5-6 cm long; cystoliths abundant above, few below; stipules very large, 8-25 cm long, often rosy to pinkish-brown. Syconia sessile, in extra axillary pairs below the leaves, pale-greenish, subtended by 3 caducous basal bracts. Male flowers: pedicellate, dispersed in the interior of receptacle. Female flowers: sessile; sepals 4, free, ovary smooth with subterminal style. Figs ovoid-oblong, 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm across, pale to yellowish brown.