Punjab fig

Punjab fig
	Punjab fig ( Ficus palmata )
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Rose-like (rosales)
Family :	Mulberry family (Moraceae)
Genre :	Figs ( ficus )
Type :	Punjab fig
Scientific name
	Ficus palmata
	Forssk.

The Punjab fig ( Ficus palmata ) is a species of the genus figs ( Ficus ) within the mulberry family (Moraceae). It occurs from the Horn of Africa via the Arabian Peninsula , Iraq and Iran to the Indian subcontinent ( Punjab region) and the island of Sri Lanka .

description

Habit as a shrub

More rarely, the stalked leaf is slightly lobed like here

Vegetative characteristics

The Punjab fig usually grows as a deciduous tree and reaches heights of up to a maximum of 8 to 10 meters.

The alternate leaves arranged on the branches are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The leaf blade is mostly undivided, only rarely weakly lobed and heart-shaped or oblong-heart-shaped with a length of 12 to 14 centimeters and a width of 15 to 16 centimeters. The upper side of the leaf is rough and the underside is slightly hairy, especially on the leaf veins.

Generative characteristics

The fruits are only 3 centimeters large, almost black when fully ripe and have an intense taste.

ecology

Like the common fig, the Punjab fig is pollinated by the fig gall wasp ( Blastophaga psenes ) .

use

The fruits are relatively small, but edible and tasty. This type of fig can also be grown in Germany when the microclimate is favorable . In the 19th century it was cultivated in the valley of Satledsch in the Indian-Pakistani border area up to an altitude of 3000 meters.

Systematics

Ficus palmata was first published in 1775 by Forsskål in Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. , Page 179.

Ficus palmata belongs to the sub-section Ficus from the section Ficus in the sub-genus Ficus within the genus Ficus and thus closely related to the common fig .

literature

Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, pp. 95–97.
↑ Victor Hehn : Cultivated plants and domestic animals in their transition from Asia to Greece and Italy as well as to the rest of Europe , Berlin 1870, p. 99.
↑ Ficus palmata at figweb.org .

Web links

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[1] Christoph Seiler: Figs from your own garden , Stuttgart 2016, pp. 95–97.

[Hehn1870-2] Victor Hehn : Cultivated plants and domestic animals in their transition from Asia to Greece and Italy as well as to the rest of Europe , Berlin 1870, p. 99.

[3] Ficus palmata at figweb.org .