Ficus auriculata


Ficus auriculata is a type of fig tree seen all over Asia noted for its big and round leaves. This is used as fodder in Nepal. It is least resistant to fire, but likes good sunlight.
This plant is a small tree of high with numerous bristle-covered branches. The leaves are big and round, and are up to long and wide, with cordate or rounded base, acute apex, and 5–7 main veins from the leaf base. Its petioles are up to long, and it has stipules of about long. The plant has oblate syconium that are up to wide, covered with yellow pubescence, and emerge from the trunk or old branches of the tree.
The fresh fruit of this plant are consumed as food, and have diuretic, laxative and digestive regulating properties.
Ceratosolen emarginatus is the insect that helps to pollinate this plant.

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