Ficus grossularioides (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ficus grossularioides Burm. f.

Family: Moraceae

Synonyms

• Ficus alba Reinw. ex Blume,
• Ficus hunteri Miq.,
• Ficus lobata Hunter ex Ridley

Vernacular names

• White-leaved fig (En)
• Indonesia: hamberang leutik, seuhang (Sundanese), kebek (Javanese), modang susu (Batak, Sumatra)
• Malaysia: ara perak, kelumpong burong, sepedeh jantan (Peninsular).

Distribution

Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java and Borneo (Kalimantan, Sarawak).

Uses

Young shoots are eaten as salad with rice.

Observations

• Evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 10 m tall, containing white latex.
• Sapling leaves cordate, 3-5-lobed, 20-35 cm × 10-23 cm; adult leaves elliptical, 5-15 cm × 2.5-7.5 cm, toothed; leaves characteristically white and finely woolly on underside.
• Fruit a globular fig, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, mostly on twigs just below the leaves, dark red.

In open forest, along streams and forest edges, up to 2100 m altitude.

Selected sources

7, 20, 24, 26, 44, 66. vegetables