Ficus tinctoria - Goddumitle

Goli, Ficus tinctoria

Goli, Ficus tinctoria is a small spreading fig tree with rough leaves. This tree usually grows as an epiphyte on other trees.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	aane gulaganji
Hindi	baragunci, barighumchi, barigumchi
Malayalam	manjadi
Tamil	aanaikundrimani, anai kundumani
Telugu	bandi gurivenda, bandi gurvina, bandigurivenda, bandiguruginja, enugaguruginji
Marathi	NA
Gujarathi	NA
Punjabi	NA
Kashmiri	NA
Sanskrit	kamboji, ksharaka, kucandanah,tamraka
English	Coralwood tree

Properties

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

Rasa

Tikta (Bitter)

Guna

Laghu (Light)

Veerya

Sheeta (cold)

Karma

Pitta

Habit

Small tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Simple	alternate	stipules lateral, to 1.5 cm, lanceolate; petiole 5-10 mm, slender, grooved above, scabrous; lamina 5-12 x 2-5.5 cm, elliptic-ovate or rhomboid, gibbous on one side, base acute or attenuate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, gibbous on one side, more or less scabrous, hispid above, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 3-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath, intercostae reticulate, prominent.

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Unisexual	Syconia		1	axillary, usually paired or clustered, rarely solitary, globose; peduncle 1.5-10 mm, slender, scabrous, body scabrous; basal bracts 3, small, closed by several small apical scales; internal bristles minute, abundant; flowers of 4 kinds, male and gall flowers in same receptacle; female in separate; male flowers ostiolar, in 1-2 rows, sessile or pedicellate, oblong; tepals 3-6, free, 0.7-1 mm, white, scabrous, puberulous; stamen 1; filament 0.6 mm long; anther oblong, parallel, mucronate; pistillode present; female flowers sessile; tepals 4, oblong, free, white, scabrous, puberulous; ovary superior, sessile, 1 x 0.8 mm, obovoid-globose, white; style 2 mm, lateral; gall flowers sessile or pedicellate; tepals as in male flowers; ovary 0.5 mm across, globose or 2-lobed; style lateral, short tapering, tip thickened, brown.

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Syconium		yellow when ripe; peduncle to 1.5 cm long; achene 1.5 x 1.2 mm, keeled or not.			{{{6}}}

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings.

Commonly seen growing in areas

Tropical area.

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