Statue of Unity – Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat Rain Forest Ektanagar

Ficus talbotii

Syn. Ficus pierrei

IUCN Red List Least Concern (LC)

Local name

  • Talbot Fig (English)
  • Ithi (Malayalam)
  • Ichchi (Tamil)

Tree type

Evergreen Deciduous
Family: Moraceae
30m

Indicated uses

Medicinal Edible Ornamental Avenue Other

Flowering & fruiting

Flowering Fruiting

Key characters

Ficus talbotii bark

Bark

Greenish to grey-green and relatively smooth; blaze cream-coloured. Young branchlets are pubescent. Milky latex is abundant when injured.

Ficus talbotii leaves

Leaves

Leaves are simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 0.5 cm long, ovate, velvet-hairy, falling off and leaving annular scar; leaf-stalks are 1–3 cm long, channeled, velvet-hairy when young.

Ficus talbotii flower

Flower

Flowers minute, unisexual and enclosed within the syconium. Syconia are sessile and arranged in axillary pairs.

Ficus talbotii fruit / seeds

Fruit / Seeds

Figs are stalkless and occur in leaf-axils in pairs, depressed spherical, 0.5–0.6 cm across.

Ficus talbotii

Did you know?

The species name talbotii honours William Alexander Talbot (1847–1917), a forest officer and botanist who extensively studied the forests of the Western Ghats and Karnataka.

Distribution

World map showing distribution

India to Indo-China