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Banana fig

Ficus pleurocarpa

Banana fig

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

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