Ficus hederacea Roxb.


Synonym : Ficus anabatos Voigt
Ficus cantoniensisBodinier ex H.Lév.
Ficus fructicosa Roxb.
Ficus longipes Griff.
Bangla Name : Gasi-dumur
English Name : Climbing Fig
Family : Moraceae
Disease : Cut, boils, chest pain, epilepsy, fever, gout, jaundice, paralysis, remitting fever, stomachache, strangury, tuberculosis
Description : Shrubs, scandent. Stems and branchlets with aerial roots at nodes; branchlets pubescent when young. Stipules caducous, ovate. Leaves distichous; petiole thick; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-ellipticthickly leathery, with hairs when young, both sides with papillate cystoliths, base broadly cuneate to obtuse, margin entire, apex obtuse to occasionally rounded; Figs axillary on leafy or on leafless branchlets, solitary or paired, yellowish green to red when mature, globose, with thick and short hairs when young, inside without bristles. Male flowers: few, scattered, sessile; calyx lobes 3 or 4; stamens 2; filaments free; anthers not mucronate. Gall flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 4, lanceolate; ovary obovate, hard, black; style subapical, short; stigmas curved. Female flowers: pedicellate or sessile; calyx lobes 4, linear. Achenes ellipsoid, dorsally keeled; stigmas extended. Fl. May-Jul.
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Uses : Cut, boils, chest pain, epilepsy, fever, gout, jaundice, paralysis, remitting fever, stomachache, strangury, tuberculosis
Habit : Shrub