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Ficus polita (Wild Rubber Fig)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Heart-leaved fig (Ficus polita) is a species of fig that is native to forests of the African tropics, the East African coast and Madagascar. Their figs are borne on old wood, in small clusters on stumpy branchlets. Their leaves have entire margins and are often heart-shaped, with the tip acuminate. The pollinating wasp is Courtella bekiliensis bekiliensis (Risbec) in Madagascar, and C. b. bispinosa (Wiebes) on the African mainland. It is similar to the Pondoland fig, Ficus bizanae, which is also a forest species.
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Courtella bekiliensis[3]

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2Diet, Nutritional Ecology, and Birth Season of Eulemur macaco in an Anthropogenic Forest in Madagascar, Bruno Simmen & Françoise Bayart & André Marez & Annette Hladik, Int J Primatol (2007) 28:1253–1266
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0