Ficus brusii (Highland breadfruit)
Botanical name: Ficus brusii
Common name: Highland breadfruit
Family: Moraceae
Origin: New Guinea
Ficus brusii closely resembles the Ficus dammaropsis but the latter does better in sun-tropical climates while the former is a lowland tropical grower. It grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Ficus dammaropsis is a tropical evergreen fig tree with huge pleated leaves 60 cm (24 in) across and up to 90 cm (3 ft) in length. on petioles as much as thirteen inches (thirty-three centimetres) long and 1 in (2.5 cm) thick. Its fruit, the world's largest figs, up to six inches (fifteen centimetres) in diameter, are edible but rarely eaten except as an emergency food. The lowland form of this species, with different and smaller flower form and less pleated leaves than Ficus dammaropsis, found commonly below 900 metres (2,950 ft) is recognized as a distinct species, Ficus brusii.
Similar plants: Ficus brusii (Highland breadfruit)
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- Ficus altissima (Council Tree)
- Ficus aspera (Variegated Clown Fig)
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- Ficus benjamina (Benjamin Fig)
- Ficus capensis (Broom Cluster fig)
- Ficus carica (Fig Tree)
- Ficus citrifolia (Shortleaf Fig)
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