Ficus botryocarpa (PROSEA)
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Ficus botryocarpa Miquel
- Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 233 (1867).
- Family: Moraceae
Synonyms
- Ficus barnesii Merr. (1904),
- Ficus mindorensis Merr. (1904),
- Ficus linearifolia Elmer (1907),
- Ficus conora King.
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: bali susuk, delah, tarera intalun (Sulawesi), musur (Ambon)
- Papua New Guinea: simbahu (Sui, Northern Province)
- Philippines: basikong (Manobo, Bagobo), daing-daing (Tagalog).
Distribution
The Philippines, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, New Guinea and New Britain.
Uses
In Papua New Guinea, the fruit latex is placed on a boil to effect healing. Young leaves and figs are eaten raw or boiled as a vegetable with rice.
Observations
- A small tree up to 14 m tall.
- Leaves distichous or opposite, elliptical, 9-26 cm × 3-11 cm, base cuneate, apex shortly acuminate, margin entire, with 6-10 pairs of lateral veins, glabrous or sparsely hairy below, pale red when young, stipules 1-2.5 cm long.
- Figs cauliflorous, paired, subglobose, 15-27 mm in diameter, glabrescent, spotted green ripening yellowish-white; male flowers with 1 stamen, female flowers sessile or shortly stipitate.
F. botryocarpa is found in primary and secondary lowland to montane forest, up to 1700 m altitude, often along rivers.
Selected sources
24, 44, 61. vegetables
medicinals :
- [281] Corner, E.J.H., 1965. Check-list of Ficus in Asia and Australia. Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore 21: 1-186.
- [597] Holdsworth, D.K., 1977. Medicinal plants of Papua New Guinea. Technical Paper No 175. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 123 pp.
- [604] Holdsworth, D.K., 1993. Medicinal plants of the Oro (Northern) Province of Papua New Guinea. International Journal of Pharmacognosy 31: 23-28.
- [1104] Paijmans, K. (Editor), 1976. New Guinea vegetation. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 209 pp.
Main genus page
- Ficus (Medicinal plants)
Authors
- J.P. Rojo, F.C. Pitargue & M.S.M. Sosef
