Ficus verruculosa

Ficus verruculosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Rosales
Family:Moraceae
Tribe:Ficeae
Genus:Ficus
Species: F. verruculosa
Binomial name
Ficus verruculosa

Ficus verruculosa, the water fig, is a species of fig from sub-saharan Africa.

It is found from north eastern South Africa, northern Botswana and Namibia to Uganda and west to Nigeria in riverine and swamp fringes or grassland, always near water.[1] It is pollinated by the wasp Platyscapa binghami.[2]

The growth form of Ficus verruculosa is as a shrub, or weak-stemmed, sparsely branched shrub 0.2-0.6 m tall, less often a small tree up to 12m, often forming low, creeping thickets. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 3.5-20 x 1.5-8.5 cm, leathery, hairless. Figs are produced mostly in pairs in leaf axils, greenish when unripe, ripening to red[3] and are fed on by African green pigeons Treron calvus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Ficus verruculosa". www.zimbabweflora.co.zw. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  2. ↑ "Ficus verruculosa - FigWeb". www.figweb.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  3. ↑ CJB, CJB, DSIC, Cyrille Chatelain -. "CJB - African plant database - Detail". www.ville-ge.ch. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", Mike Shanahan, Samson So, Stephen G. Compton and Richard Corlett, Biological Reviews (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
  • Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Ficus verruculosa". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.


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