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Trees, 25-30 m tall, d.b.h. 40-90 cm. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets green, ca. 1 cm thick, pubescent. Stipules 2-3 cm, thickly leathery, with gray silky hairs. Petiole robust, 2-5 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, 10-19 × 8-11 cm, thickly leathery, glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse, acute; basal lateral veins long, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein, reticulate venation clearly defined in dry leaf. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired, red or yellow when mature, ellipsoid-ovoid, 1.7-2.8 cm, sometimes pubescent when very young, glabrous when mature, apical pore navel-like, convex, sessile; involucral bracts hoodlike, covering young fig, caducous, apex broadly obtuse, scar ringlike. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: scattered; calyx lobes 4, transparent, membranous; stamen 1. Gall flowers: sepals 4; style subapical, long. Female flowers: sessile; sepals 4; style elongated. Achenes tuberculate. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jul.
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 43 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Himalaya (Nepal to NEFA), Burma, S.W. China (Yunnan), Indo-China, Malaysia.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam].
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 43 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Habitat

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Mountains, plains; 100-2000 m.
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 43 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Derivation of specific name

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altissima: tallest
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ficus altissima Blume Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/species.php?species_id=199660
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Worldwide distribution

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Native from the Indian Himalayas, Nepal, Southern China and Vietnam to Indonesia and the Philippines.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ficus altissima Blume Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/species.php?species_id=199660
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Ficus altissima

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Ficus altissima, commonly known as the council tree[3] and lofty fig, is a species of flowering plant, a fig tree in the family Moraceae. It is a large, stately evergreen hemiepiphyte and is native to southeastern Asia.

Description

Leaves

Ficus altissima is a large, evergreen forest tree, growing to 30 m (98 ft), with a spreading crown and often multiple buttressed trunks and characteristic of its subgenus Urostigma. The bark is smooth and grey, with small pale brown pustules. The branches are spreading and the twigs are hairy and often green when young.[4] The leaves are alternate, elliptic to ovate, with entire margins and up to 100 by 40 mm (3.9 by 1.6 in). They are supported on short stalks and have sheathing stipules.

The flowers are solitary or in pairs and are in the axils of the leaves. They are concealed inside hollow receptacles which grow into orangish-red, many-seeded. 25 mm (1 in) figs following pollination.[5]

Distribution and habitat

Ficus altissima is native to southeastern Asia and many islands in the Pacific. Its range includes the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, South China and the Malesia region.[5] It was first described by the Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume in 1826 from Java. It has become naturalized in some of the southern counties of Florida.[3] It grows in mountains and plains.[4]

Common Names

Vernacular names include:

  • Chinese: 高山榕 gao shan rong[4]
  • Vietnamese: đa tía (sometimes đa rất cao: i.e. "very tall")
  • Myanmar; "Nyaung Moat Seit"

Ecology

Ficus altissima is a "strangler fig", often starting life as an epiphyte, on trees such as Lagerstroemia (as illustrated above) or palms, sending down roots to the ground which in time grow stout enough to support the growing tree independently. By this time the host tree has been overwhelmed and killed. It can also grow as a lithophyte in a crevice in a rock or a man made structure. It is sometimes planted as a shade tree but has a wide root system and is unsuitably large for most urban areas.[5][6]

Ficus altissima is one of many trees that hosts lac insects, scale insects in the superfamily Coccoidea, from which the dye lac is obtained.[5] It has been planted in southern Florida,[7] where it didn't seed because there weren't any native insects available to pollinate the flowers. However, non-native wasps (Eupristina sp.), that have become established in the area, seem capable of pollinating it and the tree is now proliferating and becoming invasive.[8]

Cultivation

A cultivar 'Yellow Gem' is a variegated variety with yellow tinted leaves.[9][10]

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References

  1. ^ Shao, Q.; Zhao, L.; Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).; IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (2019). "Ficus altissima". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T147483545A147650743. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T147483545A147650743.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ "The Plant List". Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b Wunderlin, R. P.; Hansen, B. F. (2008). "Ficus altissima". Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  4. ^ a b c "Ficus altissima". Flora of China. 5: 43. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Ficus altissima Bl.: Moraceae". BIOTIK. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  6. ^ "Ficus altissima". TopTropicals. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  7. ^ "Council tree". Everglades CISMA. Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
  8. ^ Nadel, Hannah; Frank, J. Howard; Knight, R. J. Jr. (1992). "Escapees and Accomplices: The Naturalization of Exotic Ficus and Their Associated Faunas in Florida". The Florida Entomologist. 75 (1): 29–38. doi:10.2307/3495478. JSTOR 3495478.
  9. ^ FICUS ALTISSIMA 'YELLOW GEM' 140MM
  10. ^ Ficus Yellow Gem (Rubber Plant)

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Ficus altissima: Brief Summary

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Ficus altissima, commonly known as the council tree and lofty fig, is a species of flowering plant, a fig tree in the family Moraceae. It is a large, stately evergreen hemiepiphyte and is native to southeastern Asia.

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