Ficus citrifolia Mill.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ficus citrifolia Mill.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Tree to 10 m tall, sometimes a strangler, producing abundant white latex; bark light gray. Leaf blades 4-20 x 2-12 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic, ovate, elliptic-lanceolate or seldom oblanceolate, glabrous, the apex acuminate or shortly acuminate, the base obtuse, cordate or rarely truncate, the margins entire; petioles 1-7 cm long; stipules reddish, glabrous. Syconium short-peduncled, globose, depressed-globose, or obovoid, 6-12 mm diam., yellowish green, red-spotted, becoming red at maturity.

  • Discussion

    Common name: white fig.

  • Distribution

    A common tree of moist forests to coastal scrub. Bordeaux Mountain (A1895), White Cliffs (A2042). Also on Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; Florida, Greater and Lesser Antilles.

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