| Mountain fig | |
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| In Pretoria, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Genus: | Ficus |
| Subgenus: | F. subg. Urostigma |
| Species: | F. glumosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ficus glumosa Delile | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ficus glumosa, also known as the mountain fig or hairy rock fig, is an Afrotropical fig shrub or tree, growing up to 20 m tall. It is found over a range of altitudes and broken terrain types, including kopjes, outcrops, escarpments and lava flows, or in woodlands. It is for the greater part absent from the tropical rainforest zone, or the dry interior regions of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Identification
Bark is cream coloured, flaking, with the branchlets densely covered with yellow brown hairs. Leaves are alternate, broadly elliptical 30 – 140 x 15 – 95mm in size, 3-veined from the base, veins are raised on the underside of the leaf. Figs are 8 to 15mm diameter, hairy and red when ripe, singly or paired in leaf axils, clustered toward branch ends. The fruit is much favoured by birds, bats, antelope, monkey and baboons.
References
- "Ficus glumosa Delile, Synonyms". ThePlantList. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- "Ficus glumosa Delile". African Plant Database. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- Van Wyk, Braam, 1952- (1997). Field guide to trees of Southern Africa. Van Wyk, Piet, 1931-2006. Cape Town: Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd. ISBN 1-86825-922-6. OCLC 38154166.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Boon, Richard (2010). Pooley's trees of Eastern South Africa (2nd ed.). Durban: Flora and Fauna Publications Trust. p. 74. ISBN 9780620460194.
External links
Media related to Ficus glumosa at Wikimedia Commons