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Cuming's Fig young fruit with short calyx This is the young unripe fruit of a female Ficus cumingii. A common fig species from Philippines which have successfully arrived the east coast of Sabah, Borneo. This species is unique where it has some leaves that are growing opposite to each other which is unlike all the other fig species. Leaves are are very rough with tiny hard hairs. This is the female fruit so this can bear fertile fruits with seeds unlike the male plants.<br />
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Previous botanical records have shown that this species is very rare in Borneo but now we are realizing that this is indeed a very common species which are growing in urban areas. My organization (1StopBorneo Wildlife) stumbled upon this while trying to record important fig trees in the urban wildlife ecosystem. In our nursery, seeds of this species germinate quite well.<br />
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Cuming's Fig young fruit with short calyx

This is the young unripe fruit of a female Ficus cumingii. A common fig species from Philippines which have successfully arrived the east coast of Sabah, Borneo. This species is unique where it has some leaves that are growing opposite to each other which is unlike all the other fig species. Leaves are are very rough with tiny hard hairs. This is the female fruit so this can bear fertile fruits with seeds unlike the male plants.

Previous botanical records have shown that this species is very rare in Borneo but now we are realizing that this is indeed a very common species which are growing in urban areas. My organization (1StopBorneo Wildlife) stumbled upon this while trying to record important fig trees in the urban wildlife ecosystem. In our nursery, seeds of this species germinate quite well.

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Ficus cumingii is a fig from the Philippines that also has been found in Borneo.

Similar species: Rosales
Species identified by _ChunXingWong_
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By _ChunXingWong_

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Uploaded Dec 16, 2020. Captured Oct 26, 2020 17:47 in Unnamed Road, 91000 Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.
  • Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
  • f/5.6
  • 1/64s
  • ISO100
  • 39.6mm