Ficus rubiginosa
Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig, is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants or rocks, it matures into a tree 30 m high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk. The leaves are oval and glossy green and measure from 4 to 19. 3 cm long and 1. 25 to 13. 2 cm wide. The fruits are small, round and yellow, and can ripen and turn red at any time of year, peaking in spring and summer.
About Ficus rubiginosa in brief
Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig, is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants or rocks, it matures into a tree 30 m high and nearly as wide with a yellow-brown buttressed trunk. The leaves are oval and glossy green and measure from 4 to 19. 3 cm long and 1. 25 to 13. 2 cm wide. The fruits are small, round and yellow, and can ripen and turn red at any time of year, peaking in spring and summer. F. rubig inosa is exclusively pollinated by the fig wasp species Pleistodontes imperialis, which may comprise four cryptospecies. Many species of bird, including pigeons, parrots and various passerines, eat the fruit. It is used as a shade tree in parks and public spaces, and when potted is well-suited for use as an indoor plant or in bonsai. In a study published in 2008, Nina Rønsted and colleagues analysed the DNA sequences from the nuclear ribosomal internal and external transcribed spacers, and the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase region, the first molecular analysis of the section Malvanthera. They found F. rubigInosa to be most closely related to the rainforest species F kinsiana and two rock-growing species arid growing species in northern Australia.
They classified these species in a new series Rubiginosae in the Platypaeae subsection in the group radiated into which it is uncertain into which direction the group Radiated is radiated. In 1913, Joseph Maiden described variety glabrescenscens in 1913, and Frederick Manson Bailey described variety lucida lucida in 1911. Both had diagnosed their varieties on the basis of their hairlessness, while Bailey’s description more closely matched his. In 2001, Australian botanist Dale Dixon found one from the herbarium of Desfontaines at Florence Herbarium and one from Étienne Pierre Ventenat at Geneva to be the type specimen. As Dixon’s description matched Bailey’s, Bailey retained his name and reclassified it as Ficus rubIGinosa. It was known as damun to the Eora and Darug inhabitants of the Sydney basin. In 1806, Carl Ludwig Willdenow gave it the botanical name Ficus australis in Species Plantarum, but this is a nomen illegitimum as the species already had a validly published name. In 1862, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel described Urostigma leichhardtii from material collected from Cape Cleveland, Queensland, noting it had affinities to Ficus baileyana. All these taxa were found to be indistinguishable from Ficus rubiginsosa by Dixon in 2001.
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