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Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA). |
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In horticulture at Bergen University (Norway) in Kees Berg's
conservancy, 1994.
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) |
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False Bay Park, Lister's Point, South Africa.
Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) |
Mbala, Zambia.
Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) |
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Lake Chala, Tanzania.
Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) |
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In horticulture (Cape Town), origin St Lucia, Kwazulu-Natal.
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
B-phase figs
receptive for pollination and oviposition.
In horticulture (Cape Town), origin St Lucia, Kwazulu-Natal.
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Photographs
© Alan Manson (Hilton, Pietermaritzburg)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68363511 |
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Habitat
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Forest
(both
wet and dry), and woodland in rocky places, up to an altitude of 2200m. |
Description
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(after
C.C. Berg in
Berg
& Wiebes 1992): |
Biological
form
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shrub
or tree up to 30 m tall, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic
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Leaves
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shape
& colour
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oblong
to obovate, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, base acute, both surface
glabrous
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size
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2.5-10
x 1-5 cm
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lateral
veins
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6-13
pairs, midrib not reaching the apex of the lamina
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petiole
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0.2-3
cm long, glabrous
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Stipules
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0.2-1
cm long, glabrous, caducous
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Figs
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position
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in
pairs in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, initially enclosed by
bud covers
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shape
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globose,
Æ
1.5-2 cm (fresh), glabrous
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peduncle
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0.2-1
cm long
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basal
bracts
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2-2,5
mm long, caducous
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References
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Berg,
C.C. 1988. New taxa and combinations in Ficus (Moraceae) in
Africa. Kew Bulletin 43: 77- 97.
Berg,
C.C. 1989. Moraceae. In: R.M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa.
A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Berg,
C.C. 1990. Distribution of African taxa of Ficus (Moraccae).
[Proc. 12th AETFAT]. Mitt. inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 23: 401-405.
Berg, C.C. 1990. Annotated check-list of the Ficus species
of the African floristic region, with special reference and a key to the
taxa of southern Africa. Kirkia, 13: 253-291.
Berg,
C.C. 1991. Moraceae. In: E. Launert & G.Y. Pope (eds) Flora
Zambesiaca 9, 6. Natural History Museum, London.
Berg, C.C. & Hijman, M.E.E. 1989. Chapter 11. Ficus. Flora of
Tropical East Africa (ed. R.M. Polhill). 43-86. A.A. Balkema,
Rotterdam.
Berg,
C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1984. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Gabon 26: 1–276.
Berg,
C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1985. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Cameroun 28: 1–298.
Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and
fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.
Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.
Bouček Z., A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp
fauna of the receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera,
Chalcidoidea). Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.
Burrows, J. & Burrows,
S. 2003. Figs of southern & south-central Africa. Umdaus Press,
Hatfield. 379 pp.
Compton, S.G., Grehan, K. & van Noort, S. 2009.
A fig crop pollinated by three or more species
of agaonid fig wasps. African Entomology 17: 215-222.
Cornille,
A., Underhill, J.G., Cruaud, A, Hossaert-McKey, M., Johnson, S. D., Tolley, K.A.,
Kjellberg, F., van Noort, S., Proffit, M.
2012.
Floral volatiles, pollinator sharing
and diversification in the fig-wasp mutualism:
insights from Ficus natalensis and its two wasp pollinators
(South Africa).
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 1731-1739
doi:
10.1098/rspb.2011.1972
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Credits
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Photographs and distribution map © Simon van Noort (Iziko
Museums of South Africa) or © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA), or ©
Alan Manson (Hilton, Pietermaritzburg), or ©
Otto Schmidt (Cape Town).
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Ficus persicifolia Warb. |
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