Ficus altissima Blume.
| Kannada Name : | - |
| Common Name : | Council tree, Lofty fig |
| Family Name : | Moraceae |
| Scientific Name : | Ficus altissima |
| Species Type : | Exotic |
| Phenology : | Evergreen |
| Conservation Status : | Least concern |
| Flowering Period : | - |
| Fruiting Period : | - |
| Origin : | Southeast Asia |
Uses
The tree is planted as a pioneer species in northern Thailand in reforestation projects to restore native woodland. The fibrous bark is used for cordage.
Description
Large semi-evergeen trees, 25-30 m tall, with aerial roots. Bark grey and rough. Leaves simple, broadly ovate to broadly ovate-elliptic, glabrous above, glabrescent beneath, coriaceous, base broadly cuneate, apex obtuse, margin entire. Inflorescence a syconium. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired, red or yellow when mature, ellipsoid-ovoid; involucral bracts hoodlike, covering young fig, caducous, apex broadly obtuse, scar ringlike. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Fruit a achenes, tuberculate.
