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Ficus craterostoma

About
Ficus craterostoma, a species of strangler fig, is a fig shrub or tree of the Afrotropics that may grow up to 20 m tall. It is found in lowland tropical and swamp forests in the west, or in afromontane forests, including rocky situations, along Africa's eastern escarpments. The western and eastern populations may constitute separate species, as they occur at different altitudes where their ranges meet in central Africa, while they seem to have exclusive pollinating...
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ficus craterostoma
- Slug
- ficus-craterostoma
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Ficus
- Species
- craterostoma
- Wikidata QID
- Q5446603
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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