''Ficus glumosa'' also known as the Mountain or Hairy Rock Fig is an
Afrotropical fig
The fig is the edible fruit of ''Ficus carica'', a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world ...
shrub or tree, growing up to 20 m tall. It is found over a range of altitudes and broken terrain types, including kopjes, outcrops, escarpments and lava flows,
or in woodlands. It is for the greater part absent from the tropical rainforest zone, or the dry interior regions of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Identification
Bark is cream coloured, flaking, with the branchlets densely covered with yellow brown hairs. Leaves are alternate, broadly elliptical 30 – 140 x 15 – 95mm in size, 3-veined from the base, veins are raised on the underside of the leaf. Figs are 8 to 15mm diameter, hairy and red when ripe, singly or paired in leaf
axils, clustered toward branch ends. The fruit is much favoured by birds, bats, antelope, monkey and baboons.
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Trees of Africa
Flora of the Arabian Peninsula