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Ficus montana (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Ficus montana]]'' Burm.f.</big>
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: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.



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