Fruits & Vegetables Week: Ficus palmata, the Punjab fig or wild fig

[Gurcharan Singh]

Ficus palmata, the Punjab fig or wild fig, a wild tree common in N W India. The fruits smaller in size than common fig are consigered to be tastier.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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[JM Garg]

Taking it as Ficus palmata subsp. virgata Browicz as this subspecies only is list for India in latest publication under Synopsis of the Genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India Lal Babu Chaudhary*, Jana Venkata Sudhakar, Anoop Kumar, Omesh Bajpai, Rinkey Tiwari and G. V. S. Murthy in Taiwania, 57(2): 193-216, 2012.