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Ficus amazonica

Plants

Family: Moraceae · Genus: Ficus

Ficus amazonica

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Ficus amazonica is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is a tree native to northern and west-central Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is a tree which grows up to 18 meters tall which can behave like a strangler fig. It is native to the lowland tropical rain forests of the Amazon biome and Trinidad and Tobago, where it grows in riverine forests and terra firma forests on rocky outcrops up to 700 meters elevation.

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