Ficus racemosa L

Synonym

Family Local name

Flowering and fruiting period

Distribution

Distribution in kerala

Habitat

IUCN

Status

Endemic/Exotic

Uses

: Ficus glomerata Roxb.

: Moraceae

: English-Cluster Fig, Gular Fig

Malayalam- Atthi

: February-May

: Indo Malasia to Australia.

: All Districts

: Semi-evergreen and deciduous forests, also in the plains.

: Least concern

: Australia,Malaysia, Indo-China and the Indian subcontinent.

:The roots are useful in dysentery.

:The bark is astringent, antidiabetic and useful as a wash for wounds. A decoction of leaves is good wash for wounds and ulcers. Tender fruits are used in diarrhoea, dyspepsia and haemorrhages. The ripe fruits are useful in menorrhagia, haemorrhoids and diarrhoea.

Key botanical characters:

Deciduous trees, to 30 m high; bole buttressed; surface reddish-brown or yellowish-brown smooth, coarsely shoots. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate, obovate. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, on short leafless branches or warty tubercles of trunk or on larger branches, flowers long stalked; ovary dark red, rough; style short. Syconium, orange, pink or dark crimson; achene granulate.