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Brown-woolly fig or Mysore fig
Ficus drupacea

About
Ficus drupacea, also known as the brown-woolly fig or Mysore fig, is a tropical tree native to Southeast Asia and Northeast Australia (it has been introduced into the New World tropics, including Puerto Rico). It is a strangler fig; it begins its life cycle as an epiphyte on a larger tree, which it eventually engulfs. Its distinctive features include dense, woolly pubescence, bright yellow to red fleshy fruit, and grayish white bark. It can reach heights...
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ficus drupacea
- Slug
- ficus-drupacea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Ficus
- Species
- drupacea
- Wikidata QID
- Q2886717
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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