Ficus obliquaG.Forst. var. obliqua Ficus backhousei(Miq.) Miq. Ficus eugenioides(Miq.) F.Muell. ex Miq. Ficus tryoniiF.M.Bailey Ficus virgineaBanks & Sol. ex Hiern Urostigma backhouseiMiq. Urostigma eugenioidesMiq. Urostigma obliquum(G.Forst.) Miq.
Ficus obliqua, commonly known as the small-leaved fig, is a tree in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Australia, New Guinea, eastern Indonesia to Sulawesi and islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Previously known for many years as Ficus eugenioides, it is a banyan of the genus Ficus, which contains around 750 species worldwide in warm climates, including the edible fig (Ficus carica). Beginning life as a seedling, which grows on other plants (epiphyte) or on rocks (lithophyte), F. obliqua can grow to 60 m (200 ft) high and nearly as wide with a pale grey buttressed trunk, and glossy green leaves.
The small round yellow fruit ripen and turn red at any time of year, although ripening peaks in autumn and winter (April to July). Known as a syconium, the fruit is an inverted inflorescence with the flowers lining an internal cavity. Ficus obliqua is pollinated by two species of fig wasp—Pleistodontes greenwoodi and P. xanthocephalus. Many species of bird, including pigeons, parrots and various passerines, eat the fruit. The range is along the east coast from Queensland, through New South Wales in rainforest, savanna woodland, sclerophyll forest and gallery forest. It is used as a shade tree in parks and public spaces, and is well-suited for use as an indoor plant or in bonsai. All parts of the tree have been used in traditional medicine in Fiji.
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Ficusobliqua, commonly known as the small-leaved fig, is a tree in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Australia, New Guinea, eastern Indonesia to...
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Australia. It was built in 1931. It is also known as Avenue of Ficus Microcarpa and FicusObliqua trees. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on...
and recognised two forms: Ficus macrophylla f. macrophylla, a free-standing tree endemic to mainland Australia; and Ficus macrophylla f. columnaris,...
by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is endemic to Fiji. The larvae feed on Ficusobliqua. Anderson, A. J. (1978). Lau - Tonga 1977: reports from the Expedition...
wasp which is native to Australia. It has an obligate mutualism with Ficusobliqua, the fig species it pollinates. Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos; Dixon, Dale...
Asclepias, Hoya australis, Marsdenia australis, Ficus platypoda, Gymnanthera oblonga and Ficusobliqua in Australia. The larvae of the endangered Gove...
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morphology of the Ficus leucotricha and Ficus platypoda complexes and divided them into: Ficus atricha, Ficus brachypoda, Ficus cerasicarpa, Ficus platypoda....
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Dioecious Fig, Ficus fistulosa, in Malaysia". Biotropica. 40 (4): 457–461. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00405.x. Media related to Ficus fistulosa at Wikimedia...
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