Ficus sagittifolia
Warb. ex Mildbr. & Burret
MoraceaeBark/Sap
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Bark
The bark is eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in closed forest in West Africa. It grows in lowland rainforest.
Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinée, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, West Africa,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A fig. It is a shrub. It starts as a strangler fig and can become a tree. It can grow attached to other plants especially oil palm. It can become a tree 10 m high.
How to Grow
The pollinator wasp is Agaon cicatriferens cicatriferens Wiebes.
Names & Synonyms
Gongo, Noncom, Tim
References (3)
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 4. Kew.
- Chapman, J. D. & Chapman, H. M., 2001, The Forest Flora of Taraba and Andamawa States, Nigeria. WWF & University of Canterbury. p 189
- www.figweb.org
