Ficus montana (PROSEA)
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Ficus montana Burm.f.
- Family: Moraceae
Synonyms
Ficus quercifolia Roxb.
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: uyah-uyahan (Javanese), amis mata (Sundanese), periyeh (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: kesinan
- Thailand: duea din (Chumphon), maduea hin (Nakhon Si Thammarat).
Distribution
Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan).
Uses
The sweetish fruits are edible. Very young leaves are eaten raw in salads. Leaves are smoked together with opium. The roots are used in a mixture with other ingredients to cure syphilis.
Observations
Erect or creeping, very variable shrub, up to 2 m long, non-epiphytic. Leaves mostly crenate-serrate, 2-26 cm × 1-12 cm. Infructescences axillary, with 1-5 fruits. Fruit a fig, 8-13 mm diameter, greenish-white to red. In gullies, hard soils, forest edges, bamboo thickets, teak forests, etc., up to 1300 m altitude. Two varieties have been distinguished.
Selected sources
3, 10, 12, 26, 39, 59.
