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Scientific name: Ficus carica L.
Diagnostic features
Spreading shrub or small tree to 10m.
Leaves 10-20cm, cordate at base, with 3-5 obtuse to rounded lobes, sparsely and roughly hairy.
Fruiting head the characteristic 'fig', green to blackish at maturity.
Chromosome number: (2n=26).
Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; waste ground and walls, especially by rivers.
This species is keyed out at is keyed out at Page 1651: Moraceae, Ficus & other families in the Text Key.
Distribution
Naturalized in South Britain, South Ireland and Channel Islands, and rarely as far North as Central Scotland, all or mostly from imported fruit; Southwest Asia. |
