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Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ficus microcarpa, also known as Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan, Taiwan banyan, Indian laurel, curtain fig, or gajumaru (ガジュマル), is a tree native in the range from China through Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, Australia, the Ryukyu Islands, and New Caledonia. It is widely planted as a shade tree and frequently misidentified as F. retusa or as F. nitida (F. benjamina).
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Specific Gravity [2]  0.5

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1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Jérôme Chave, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Timothy R. Baker, Tomás A. Easdale, Hans ter Steege, Campbell O. Webb, 2006. Regional and phylogenetic variation of wood density across 2,456 neotropical tree species. Ecological Applications 16(6), 2356 - 2367
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Jorrit 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.
5Diet of the Assamese macaque Macaca assamensis in lime- stone habitats of Nonggang, China, Qihai ZHOU, Hua WEI, Zhonghao HUANG, Chengming HUANG, Current Zoology 57 (1): 18−25, 2011
6Feeding Behavior and Diet of the Japanese Monkey (Macaca fuscata yakui) on Yakushima Island, Japan; Tamaki Maruhashi; Primates, 21(2): 141-160, April 1980
7The role of Orii’s flying-fox (Pteropus dasymallus inopinatus) as a pollinator and a seed disperser on Okinawa-jima Island, the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan; Atsushi Nakamoto, Kazumitsu Kinjo Masako Izawa; Ecol Res (2009) 24: 405–414
8Food Choice of White-headed Langurs in Fusui, China; Zhaoyuan Li, Yi Wei, and Elizabeth Rogers; International Journal of Primatology,Vol. 24,No. 6, December 2003; p. 1189-1205
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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