Moraceae FAMILY

Ficus verruculosa

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ficus verruculosa is a shrub or a weak-stemmed, sparsely branched small tree[ 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. ]. It usually grows no more than 2.5 metres tall, with some specimens up to 5 metres and occasional plants up to 12 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. ]. The edible fruit is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeAfrica - Nigeria to Uganda and Kenya, south to Angola, Namibia and S. Africa.

HabitatStream-banks and marshy ground[ 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/ ]. Riverine vegetation, grassland near water and swamp forest margins, sometimes forming thickets[ 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. ].