Giant
Higuerón
Ficus obtusifolia Kunth
Mexico to tropical South America
Fun factAt Barro Colorado, Panama, one tree produced on average about 9,900 figs per crop, and about 85 percent were removed at night, mostly by fruit bats (Korine, Kalko & Herre 2000).
A lowland fig of tropical America that grows either as a strangler or as an independent tree, often with a fluted trunk and narrow buttresses. It is recognized by its blunt, rounded, obovate leaves crowded at the branch tips and by its large, nearly stalkless figs held in pairs, each with conspicuous basal bracts. In Costa Rica it grows from sea level to about 1,000 m, in both the wet Caribbean lowlands and the seasonally dry forests of Guanacaste. Like all figs it has milky sap and is pollinated only by tiny fig wasps that develop inside the fig.
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FamilyMoraceae
Spanish nameHiguerón
Also known asMatapalo
Native toNative from Mexico through Central America, including Costa Rica, to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil.
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