Ficus pleurocarpa

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Width: 30 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Lifespan: perennial
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Exposure: sun
USDA Zones: 11 to 12
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Ficus pleurocarpa, commonly known as the banana fig, karpe fig or gabi fig,[1] is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has characteristic ribbed orange and red cylindrical syconia.[2] It begins life as a hemiepiphyte, later becoming a tree up to 25 m (82 ft) tall. F. pleurocarpa is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp.

Ficus pleurocarpa is a monoecious tree which grows up to 25 m (82 ft) tall. Its leaves are 150–257 mm long (6–10 in) long and 49–100 mm (2–4 in) wide. Its syconia are orange or red in colour, 39–61 mm (1.5–2.4 in) long and 19–27 mm (0.7–1 in) in diameter. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte.[2]

The figs are edible fresh or dried and are described as "tasty at the fully ripe red stage".[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Bush Tucker of the Wet Tropics". Rainforest Explorer. Wet Tropics Management Authority. Retrieved on 2008-07-13.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Dixon2003

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