Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys
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Scientific Name:<br />
Common Name(s):<br />
Ficus altissima<br />
False banyan<br />
Height:<br />
Leaves:<br />
Flowers:<br />
Bark:<br />
Fruit:<br />
O<strong>the</strong>r:<br />
Treatment:<br />
Large spreading tree to 80 ft or more<br />
Glabrous, to 10 in long and 6 in wide<br />
Not visible, internal flowers<br />
Smooth gray brown<br />
½ inch to ¾ inch diameter figs begin yellow, but ripen red<br />
Aerial roots can create a crown more than 100 ft wide Often mistaken for<br />
<strong>the</strong> Banyan Fig, Ficus banghalensis, which has hairy leaves below.<br />
www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/derm/badplants.htm<br />
http://community.webshots.com/photo/58202538/58307601BOiAeT<br />
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