Accession Data

Ficus lyrata

Common Name: Fiddle-Leaf Ficus

Family: Moraceae

Country of Origin: Cameroon west to Sierra Leone

Description: Fiddle-Leaf Ficus is a large forty feet tree, that is native to tropical Africa. It posses fiddle-shape leaves that are thick, leathery with yellow-green veins. The fruit are figs that are dotted white. Popular indoors when young and used as a shade tree in the tropics.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10a-10b

Accession #: 198500701

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1110

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: eurosid I

Order: Rosales

Family: Moraceae

Tribe: Ficeae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. Exotica International series 4 vol 2, Graf.
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, May 19, 2017.
  4. Ficus lyrata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Friday, May 19, 2017.
  5. Ficus lyrata at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Friday, May 19, 2017.

Images

Ficus lyrata