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Banana fig
Ficus pleurocarpa

About
Ficus pleurocarpa, commonly known as the banana fig, karpe fig or gabi fig, is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has characteristic ribbed orange and red cylindrical syconia. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte, later becoming a tree up to 25 m (82 ft) tall. F. pleurocarpa is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp.
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ficus pleurocarpa
- Slug
- ficus-pleurocarpa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Ficus
- Species
- pleurocarpa
- Wikidata QID
- Q5446625
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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