| Eastern Laurel Fig |
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| File size | 912187 |
| Original date | 9/2/10 5:19 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 4.6mm |
| Exposure time | 1/60s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Ficus curtipes Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Synonyms: Ficus obtusifolia Roxb. [Illegitimate]
Synonyms: Ficus obtusifolia Roxb. [Illegitimate]
Eastern Laurel Fig is a tree which can grow on
other plants when young. Bark is pale grey, smooth. Leaves are narrowly
elliptic-oblong, or obovate, thickly leathery, hairless, base
wedge-shaped, margin entire, tip rounded, lateral veins obscure, 8-10
on either side of midvein, obsolete above, distinct beneath,
inprominent on both surfaces. Leaf-stalk is about 1.5 cm, stipules
lanceshaped, hairless, 1-2.4 cm. Figs are rather crowded, in leaf-axils
on leafy branchlets, paired, yellowish or reddish when ripe, spherical
1-1.5 cm in diameter, apical pore flat, basal bracts 3 leathery large,
rounded, heart-shaped, stalkless, involucral bracts green. Male, gall,
and female flowers within the same fig. Achenes are ovate-rotund,
tubercled and sticky, with a sticky surface membrane, tuberculate.
Eastern Laurel Fig is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, N India, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Vietnam, at altitudes of
500-1400 m.
| Identification credit: Varun Sharma | Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi. |
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