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Ficus amazonica is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae. It is a tree native to northern and west-central Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Guianas, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. It is a tree which grows up to 18 meters tall which can behave like a strangler fig. It is native to the lowland tropical rain forests of the Amazon biome and Trinidad and Tobago, where it grows in riverine forests and terra firma forests on rocky outcrops up to 700 meters elevation.
The species was first described as Urostigma amazonicum by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel in 1847. In 1866 Édouard André placed it in genus Ficus as F. amazonica.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus amazonica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
