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Ficus carica, common fig, common fig tree, fig
Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
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Ficus aurea, Florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig, wild fig
a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
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East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan, banian, banian tree, banyan, banyan tree
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
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Ficus religiosa, bo tree, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig
fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
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Assam rubber, Ficus elastica, India-rubber fig, India-rubber plant, India-rubber tree, rubber plant
large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber
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Ficus deltoidea, Ficus diversifolia, mistletoe fig, mistletoe rubber plant
shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
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Botany Bay fig, Ficus rubiginosa, Port Jackson fig, little-leaf fig, rusty rig
Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
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Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig
thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
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Ficus carica sylvestris, caprifig
wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs
