Moraceae FAMILY

Ficus dicranostyla

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ficus dicranostyla is an evergreen or briefly deciduous shrub or tree with a rather open crown. It varies in habit from a shrub no more than 2 metres tall up to, and more commonly, a tree up to 20 metres, exceptionally to 35 metres tall[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. , 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ]. The cylindrical bole can be unbranched for up to three-quarters of the tree's height and 100cm in diameter[ 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeTropical Africa - Senegal to Sudan and Uganda. Also in southeast DR Congo and northern Zambia.

HabitatWooded grassland; often in rocky places; savannah; forest, gallery; lateritic pans; termite mounds; rain-forest patches; miombo woodland; semi-deciduous forests, at elevations from sea level to around 1,300 metres[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. , 328 Title African Flowering Plants Database Publication Author Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/recherche.php Publisher Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques. Year 0 ISBN Description Contains information on over 150,000 plant names (including synonyms) giving a description and habitat, plus a distribution map. ]