| Common Red-Stem Fig |
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| File size | 1010196 |
| Original date | 11/23/19 8:04 AM |
| Resolution | 5184 x 3888 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 64.5mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX B700 |
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Botanical name: Ficus variegata Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Synonyms: Ficus chlorocarpa, Ficus viridicarpa, Ficus domestica
Synonyms: Ficus chlorocarpa, Ficus viridicarpa, Ficus domestica
Common Red-Stem Fig is a tree about up to 30 m tall,
with bark grayish brown, smooth. Leaves are alternate, ovate to
ovate-elliptic, velvet-hairy when young, base rounded to heart-shaped,
margin entire, wavy or slightly toothed, tip pointed, tapering, or
blunt, leaf-stalk 5-10 cm long, stipules ovate-lanceshaped, hairless.
Figs are rarely solitary, usually clustered on shortly tuberculate
branchlets from old stem, red, with green stripes and spots when
mature, spherical to depressed spherical, tip slightly depressed,
bracts ovate, flower-cluster-stalk 2.5 cm long. Wasps have an
important role to play in pollinating these figs. Common Red-Stem Fig
is native to E India to S China and Australia.
| Identification credit: Momang Taram | Photographed at Yingkiong, Upper Siang, Arunachal Pradesh & North Andaman. |
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