Ficus glumosa, also known as the mountain fig or hairy rock fig, is an Afrotropical fig shrub or tree, growing up to 20 m tall. It is found over a range of altitudes and broken terrain types, including kopjes, outcrops, escarpments and lava flows,[2] or in woodlands. It is for the greater part absent from the tropical rainforest zone, or the dry interior regions of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
| Mountain fig | |
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| In Pretoria, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Genus: | Ficus |
| Subgenus: | F. subg. Urostigma |
| Species: | F. glumosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Ficus glumosa | |
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Identification edit
Bark is cream coloured, flaking, with the branchlets densely covered with yellow brown hairs. Leaves are alternate, broadly elliptical 30 – 140 x 15 – 95mm in size, 3-veined from the base, veins are raised on the underside of the leaf. Figs are 8 to 15mm diameter, hairy and red when ripe, singly or paired in leaf axils, clustered toward branch ends. The fruit is much favoured by birds, bats, antelope, monkey and baboons.[3][4]
References edit
- ^ "Ficus glumosa Delile, Synonyms". ThePlantList. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ "Ficus glumosa Delile". African Plant Database. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ Van Wyk, Braam, 1952- (1997). Field guide to trees of Southern Africa. Van Wyk, Piet, 1931-2006. Cape Town: Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd. ISBN 1-86825-922-6. OCLC 38154166.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Boon, Richard (2010). Pooley's trees of Eastern South Africa (2nd ed.). Durban: Flora and Fauna Publications Trust. p. 74. ISBN 9780620460194.
External links edit
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