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General Information

Ficus minahassae is an evergreen tree with a widely spreading crown; it can grow up to 25 metres tall. The bole is more or less buttressed at the base, and sometimes shortly stilt-rooted[, ].
The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.

Known Hazards

None known

Botanical References

Range

Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.

Habitat

Primary forests, chiefly along streams and in damp places, at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,350 metres[, ].

Properties

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Habit	Evergreen Tree
Height	15.00 m
Pollinators	Wasps
Cultivation Status	Wild

Cultivation Details

Trees can commence fruiting when around 4 metres tall[].
Fig trees have a unique form of fertilization, each species relying on a single, highly specialized species of wasp that is itself totaly dependant upon that fig species in order to breed. The trees produce three types of flower; male, a long-styled female and a short-styled female flower, often called the gall flower. All three types of flower are contained within the structure we usually think of as the fruit.
The female fig wasp enters a fig and lays its eggs on the short styled female flowers while pollinating the long styled female flowers. Wingless male fig wasps emerge first, inseminate the emerging females and then bore exit tunnels out of the fig for the winged females. Females emerge, collect pollen from the male flowers and fly off in search of figs whose female flowers are receptive. In order to support a population of its pollinator, individuals of a Ficus spp. Must flower asynchronously. A population must exceed a critical minimum size to ensure that at any time of the year at least some plants have overlap of emmission and reception of fig wasps. Without this temporal overlap the short-lived pollinator wasps will go locally extinct[].

Edible Uses

The sap is employed as a beverage[, , ].

Fruit[]. The red fruit is 20 - 25mm in diameter[].
The stem is often densely covered with numerous, very long and branched tubercles bearing the figs, the tubercles also arise from the base of the main branches[]

Medicinal

The leaves are used as an antirheumatic topical[, , ].

The reddish colour of the decoction of the bark seems to suggest astringent properties[, ].

Other Uses

The bark is used for making various utensils[].

Propagation

Seed -

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