Ficus

• Region

  Oceania

• Country

  Papua New Guinea

• State/Province

  West New Britain

• County/Municipio

  Talasea Distr.

• Locality

  Linga Linga Plantation

• Elevation

  Alt. 9 m. (30 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -5.47, 149.67

• Location Notes

  [Pacifica]

• Distribution

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FLORA OF I'SW-GUINEA
Botanical Collections of the Division
of Botany, Department of Forests, Lae,
D. FRODIN, NGF 26772, 14/5/60
Locality: Ljnga Linga Plantation, Talasea,
New Britain, altitude 30 feet.
Lat. 5 28 S	Long, 149 40 E
Habitat: Occupying low hill arising from
swampy ground planted with coconuts.
Ann ot. Banyan tree, crown ^ver 100 feet
in diameter; trunks in the hundreds;
height 90 feet. Bark dark orange-brown,
becoming grey when older, peeling in thin
layers laterally; covered with rigidly
horizontal rows of raised lentieels. Blaze
dirty white (branches pink to white) tough.
Wood cream. Odour absent; sticky, milky
exudate abundant. Leaves dark green above*
green below, slightly glaucous. Midrib
yellow; leaf-buds red. Fruit orange.
Fam.	Moraceae
Name:	Ficus
Dupl0 sent to: L. Bri. Canb.
Bog. Sing. Syd. UH. PNH. US. Bish.
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