Bio Diversity Park

Common Name : Wild Himalayan Fig

Hindi Name : जंगली हिमालयी अंजीर, बेडू | Scientific Name : Ficus palmata Forsk.
Family : Moraceae
Uses : Fruit is juicy and used for making various products such as squash, jam and jelly from this fruit. The fruits contain chiefly sugars and mucilage and are principally used as an item of diet in several cases of constipation and in the diseases of the lungs and the bladder. The plant is used in various diseases, e.g. gastrointestinal disorders, hypoglycemia, tumour, ulcer, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and fungal infections. Traditionally, stem latex is applied to extract spines deeply lodged in the flesh.
Native: SE. Egypt to NE. Tropical Africa and Arabian Peninsula
General Description:

Small tree up to 10m tall without aerial roots, bark smooth, brownish-grey, young twigs hairy. Leaves broadly suborbicular, orbicular to ovate, cordate at the base, with tomentose petiole, basins membranous, mostly undivided or sometimes palmate, partite, dentate to serrate, acute to obtuse, upper surface scabrid, soft hairy on lower side to glabrate. Stipules ovate, hypanthodia solitary or sometimes paired, axillary, tomentose peduncles, subglobose to pear-shaped, subtended by 3, deltoid, acute basal bracts, apical orifice umbonate. Male flowers numerous in upper half, pedicellate, sepals 5, free, lanceolate, hairy, stamens 3 to 6. Female flowers basal, numerous, sepals 5, basally united and hairy. Ovary ovoid with subterminal, long hairy style. Figs gradually narrowed at the base, 2 cm long, yellow or purple in color. Syconus fruit.