Three pieces of green textured ulu, known more broadly as breadfruit, growing in a tree. The leaves surrounding the fruit are a darker color of green.
Breadfruit growing in Maui 🌱
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Ficus carica L.
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Photo of a small tree with big, lyre-shaped leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Photo of a small tree with big, lyre-shaped leaves. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
If the Ficus lyrata you know are skinny potted houseplants, you might be interested to see that, growing in the ground, they are small, well-behaved trees. (I look at the spindly specimen in my office & know that we both long for the Tropics.) #Moraceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo looking up into a large tree with smooth bark. Along the trunk, clusters of red figs dangle like bunches of grapes. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Just about all animals like to eat figs. A single fig tree can attract dozens of species of birds, but the figs on Ficus racemosa are cauliflorous, i.e., borne on branchlets arising directly from the trunk, = an adaptation to bat dispersal. Easy access for large bats. 🦇 #Moraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a hand holding a rounded triangular leaf showing the underside with dichotomizing main veins. Small black triangles are in the sinuses of these main veins. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Close-up photo of a hand holding a rounded triangular leaf showing the underside with dichotomizing main veins. Small black triangles are in the sinuses of these main veins. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
This is one of my favorite shrubby species: Ficus deltoidea, so named for the shape of the leaf, not the black triangles on the underside of the leaf. Although there are a couple of published studies of leaf anatomy, neither explains what these triangles are. 🤷♂️ #Moraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of leaf litter scraped away to reveal stems bearing figs.
Ficus has several species that are geocarpic, bearing figs on rhizomes or trailing stems that are buried in leaf litter. Here’s F. treubii of Borneo with the litter pulled away to show the figs. 📷: Cerlin Ng CCBYNCSA2. #Moraceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a few erect stems with tufts of long, strappy leaves borne at the stem apices. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Ficus pseudopalma is one of my favorites! It’s a Ficus that wants to be a palm. 😁 This unusual growth form has been called a Schopfbaum or tuft-tree. Those leaves are almost 1 m long. #Moraceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Collage of two photos. The left photo shows a very large tree from a distance. The trunk is wide but obscured by foliage. The right photo is looking up inside the “trunk” of the tree, which is formed by a lattice work of aerial roots. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Some spp start as epiphytes & send roots down to the soil. The host tree is outcompeted for light & water & dies (“strangled”). This Ficus I saw in Samoa was supported by a cylinder of roots left behind after the host died & decayed. Right photo: looking up in the cylinder. #Moraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a spreading canopy of a banyan tree with pale gray bark and large columnar roots bracing the horizontal branches. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Ficus benghalensis produces aerial roots that touch the ground & become woody. These act as supports for the spreading branches, as well as supplementing the tree’s root system. Those aerial roots are contractile, ratcheting down & locking the tree to the earth. #Moraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up of the heart-shaped leaves that overlap like shingles on this root-climber as it scales a stone wall. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Ficus spp are diverse in their growth habits. Most are trees, but some are shrubs, lianas & hemiepiphytes. Ficus villosus is a shingle-leaf climber, a growth habit I’ve written about. #Moraceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱doi.org/10.1016/j.pp...
Close-up photo of a hand holding a fig cut in transverse section. The fig is hollow and a flattened, urn shape, with the opening occluded by scales. The tiny flowers are on the inner surface of the urn. Another fig is held in the hand and has red skin. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Ficus is a genus of nearly 900, mostly tropical trees, shrubs & lianas. They all share the remarkable syconium, the fleshy, urn-like inflorescence with tiny flowers on the inside that we call a fig. Scaly bracts cover the opening of the syconium. This is F. racemosa. #Moraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Spatial patterns of Moraceae species richness in China.
Comparison of the effects of energy, water, seasonality and habitat heterogeneity on species richness across life forms and range size.
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Spatial patterns and determinants of #Moraceae richness in #China
#HydrothermalDynamicHypothesis | #TropicalNicheConservatismHypothesis | #Janzen’sHypothesis | #EnvironmentalFactor
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Papers I made by hand from phloem of select #Moraceae. L➡️R: Higuerón (Ficus aurea) Red mulberry (Morus rubra) Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) Cultivated fig (Ficus carica) Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) White mulberry (Morus alba) Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera)
Papers I made by hand from phloem of select #Moraceae.
L➡️R:
Higuerón (Ficus aurea)
Red mulberry (Morus rubra)
Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
Cultivated fig (Ficus carica)
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
White mulberry (Morus alba)
Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera)
#papermaking #ethnobotany
Ficus macrophylla
Moraceae
Hundred Acres Reserve
Norfolk Island
#FicusMacrophylla #Moraceae #NorfolkIsland #HundredAcresReserve #MoretonBayFigs
Ficus racemosa
Moraceae
#FicusRacemosa #Moraceae #ClusterFig #RedRiverFig #Gula #ozplants #Australiannature #botany #wildoz #ozflora
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#Paper I made from #Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) phloem. Despite the intense yellow-orange color of the xylem, the dye is not conferred to the paper and the brown shade is likely due to the presence of a small amount of tannins.
#papermaking #followingthepapertrail #ethnobotany #moraceae
Ficus virens
Moraceae
Atherton Tablelands,
North Queensland, Australia
#Ficus virens #Moraceae #WhiteFig #Banyan #Rainforest #WetTropicsWorldHeritageArea #Queensland #Nature #NaturePhotography #biodiversity #Australiannature #botany #ozplants #ozflora
Photo of a climber with overlapping (shingle-like) hear-shaped leaves. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Ficus hispida is a shingle-leaf climber, a morphology it exhibits even when climbing this rough, coral-rock wall. #TropicalBotany #Moraceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
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Photo of a leafy shoot. The ovate leaves are stiff and corrugated. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0
Photo of a pair of figs. Each fig is covered by overlapping scaly bracts. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0
Nothing says #TropicalBotany like Ficus! This is F. brusii. The leaves are enormous, and the bracteose, softball-size figs are out of this world! I am obsessed with this #Ficus. #Moraceae
#Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
