Botanical name: Ficus geniculata    Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)

Futkal Fig is a large tree with bark brownish grey, velvet-hairy, fissured vertically, inside light brown, very finely fibrous, branchlets warty. Leaves are clustered, alternate, hairless, ovate oblong to oval, 4.5-11 x 3-8 cm, margin slightly recurved, tip tapering, rigidly leathery, lateral veins 6-12 on either half of the mid vein, prominent beneath, very closely elegantly and prominently netveined between the main lateral veins, leaf-stalk 2-7 cm long, stipules velvet-hairy. Figs arise in leaf-axils on leafless older branchlets, solitary, paired or in drooping clusters, yellow when mature, depressed spherical, warty, stalkless or nearly so. Futkal is a traditional, sour-tasting leafy vegetable made from the tender new leaf buds of the tree. The new leaf bud are plucked and stored for use later. It is often made into chutney. Futkal Fig is found in East Himalaya, Nepal to NE India, Burma, SW China, Andaman Is., Indo-China. Flowering: April-May.

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