Ficus glumosa
{{Short description|Species of tree}}
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|name = Mountain fig
|image = Ficus glumosa, habitus, b, Tuks.jpg
|image_caption = In Pretoria, South Africa
|parent = Ficus subg. Urostigma
|taxon = Ficus glumosa
|authority = Delile
|synonyms =
- F. barbata Warb.
- F. durandiana Warb.
- F. glumosoides Hutch.
- F. gombariensis De Wild.
- F. kitaba De Wild.
- F. montana Sim
- F. rehmannii Warb.
- F. rubicunda (Miq.) Miq.
- F. rukwaensis Warb.
- F. sonderi Miq.{{cite web |title=Ficus glumosa Delile, Synonyms |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2810584 |work=ThePlantList |publisher= |accessdate=21 January 2013}}
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Ficus glumosa, also known as the mountain fig or hairy rock fig, is an Afrotropical fig shrub or tree, growing up to 20 m tall. It is found over a range of altitudes and broken terrain types, including kopjes, outcrops, escarpments and lava flows,{{cite web|title=Ficus glumosa Delile|url=http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=24123 |work=African Plant Database|publisher=Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute|accessdate=21 January 2013}} or in woodlands. It is for the greater part absent from the tropical rainforest zone, or the dry interior regions of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Identification
Image:Ficus glumosa, loof en vrugte, a, Tuks.jpg
Bark is cream coloured, flaking, with the branchlets densely covered with yellow brown hairs. Leaves are alternate, broadly elliptical 30 – 140 x 15 – 95mm in size, 3-veined from the base, veins are raised on the underside of the leaf. Figs are 8 to 15mm diameter, hairy and red when ripe, singly or paired in leaf axils, clustered toward branch ends. The fruit is much favoured by birds, bats, antelope, monkey and baboons.{{Cite book|last=Van Wyk, Braam, 1952-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38154166|title=Field guide to trees of Southern Africa|date=1997|publisher=Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd|others=Van Wyk, Piet, 1931-2006.|isbn=1-86825-922-6|location=Cape Town|oclc=38154166}}{{cite book |last1=Boon |first1=Richard |title=Pooley's trees of Eastern South Africa |date=2010 |publisher=Flora and Fauna Publications Trust |location=Durban |isbn=9780620460194 |page=74 |edition=2nd}}
References
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External links
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