Difference between revisions of "Ficus hispida - Hairy Fig"

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Ficus hispida is a shrub or small tree. It can grow up to 17 metres tall with a bole up to 25cm in diameter. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for use as a food and medicine.

Uses

Fevers, Liver problems.^[1]

Food

Ficus hispida can be used in Food. Tender leaves and young unripe fruits are cooked as vegetable. Ripe fruits are eaten raw^[2].

Parts Used

Fruits.

Chemical Composition

^[3]

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Nutritional components

Ficus hispida Contains the Following nutritional components like - β-sitosterol, lupeol acetate, hispidine, bergapten, psoral and β-amyrin; Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc^[2].

Habit

Evergreen tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature

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Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
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Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Root suckers, Seeds, Air layering.

Cultivation Details

Fig trees have a unique form of fertilization, each species relying on a single, highly specialized species of wasp that is itself totaly dependant upon that fig species in order to breed^[5]. Ficus hispida is available through January-July^[2].

Commonly seen growing in areas

Open places, Swamp forests, Along rivers, Along streams.

Photo Gallery

References

↑ Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.76, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune
↑ [Chemistry]
↑ [Morphology]
↑ Cultivation

External Links

[Uses-1] Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare

[Forest_foods_of_Western_Ghat-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "Forest food for Northern region of Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.76, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune

[chemical_composition-3] [Chemistry]

[Leaf-4] [Morphology]

[How_to_plant.2Fcultivate-5] Cultivation

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