Ficus pseudopalma (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ficus pseudopalma Blanco

Family: Moraceae

Synonyms

• Ficus blancoi Elmer.

Vernacular names

• Philippines: niog-niogan (Tagalog), lamiog (Bisaya), lubi-lubi (Bicol).

Distribution

Endemic in the Philippines.

Uses

Young leaves are eaten cooked as a vegetable, or raw as a salad. Fruits are used as anthelmintic, especially when dried. Sometimes the tree is planted as an ornamental.

Observations

• Erect tree looking like a palm, 2-6 m tall.
• Leaves crowded at the end of the trunk, subsessile; leaf-blade oblanceolate, up to 80 cm long, margins irregularly sinuate-serrate; stipules persistent, 5-7 cm long.
• Fruit a fig, red or purplish.

In dry woods and thickets, up to 1700 m altitude.

Selected sources

24, 32, 61.