Ficus benjamina

• Botanical Name : Ficus benjamina L.
• Common Name : Weeping Fig, Golden Fig
• Plant Family : Moraceae

• Earlier this plant was placed in family Urticaceae but according to the modern views it should be placed in a separate family Moraceae which is separated from family Urticaceae.

• Plant Form : Tree
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 5, 6, 11, 12, 15, 18-21, 23
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Punit Van, Van Chetana Kendra, Infocity

About Ficus benjamina Plant :

• Habit : A large evergreen tree with umbrella-like crown and drooping branches.
• Leaves : Large, elliptic-ovate, abruptly acuminate at apex, rounded at base, entire along margins, coriaceous, glabrous, stipules lanceolate.
• Inflorescence : Hypanthodium, receptacle ssolitary, sessile or with a short, thick peduncle, subglobose to pyriform, yellow to orange on ripening.
• Flowers :
  • Male flowers shortly pedicellate, abundant.
  • Stamen 1.
  • Female flowers sessile.
  • Gall flowers pedicellate.
• Fruit : Syconus
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : February-April
• Significance : It is used mostly as an ornamental tree.