Botanical name: Ficus hederacea    Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Synonyms: Ficus fructicosa, Ficus longipes

Ivy Fig is a large evergreen climber found on rocks and trees. It climbs with rooting branches. Lesves are ovate-elliptic pointed, entire, leathery, with 4-5 pairs of arching lateral nerves. Figs arise in leaf-axils on leafy or on leafless branchlets, solitary or paired, yellowish green to red when mature, spherical, 0.7-1.4 cm in diameter, with thick and short hairs when young, stalk 1-1.2 cm long. Involucral bracts are 3, fused for basal half. Ivy Fig is found in the Himalayas, from Uttarakhand to Arunachal Pradesh, at altitudes of 500-1500 m.

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