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Milk Tree

Ficus benguetensis

Milk Tree
Photo: Anthony Bain, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Moraceae (Fig & mulberry family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Safety
Toxic to cats and dogs (ASPCA).
Native range
Nansei-shotō to Philippines
Climate
wet tropical

About

Ficus benguetensis (called 豬母乳 in Taiwan) is a shrub or tree of the family Moraceae living at low elevations in the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and in the Philippines but not in Palawan. It lives as an understorey tree in humid forest environment and along streams and rivers.

Where it grows

Ficus benguetensis grows in humid tropical and subtropical moist lowland and montane forests and thickets, often along streams and small rivers, from 60 to 1,800 metres elevation.

Other Ficus plants

Large-leaved rock fig · Figwood · Ficus adhatodifolia · Ficus albert-smithii · Abbey tree · Council tree · Ficus amazonica · Ficus americana subsp. greiffiana · Jamaican cherry fig · Ficus ampelos · Indian Bat Fig · Ficus andamanica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ficus benguetensis 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.

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