Strangler Fig

Dublin Core

Title

Strangler Fig

Subject

Ficus Aurea

Description

Plant Size: 40-60 ft tal x 20-60 ft wide

Habitat: Moist-wet sites to dry sites and on shallow soils over limestone. Tropical hammocks, swamps. May be epiphytic or have aerial roots that may wrap around the trunks of other trees and eventually form secondary trunks

Medicinal Uses: Inside bark used to treat sores and cuts. Stranlger fig can also be used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery and other gastrointestinal disorders.

Medicinal Preparation: Leaves can be brewed into a tea. Sap can be extracted as an ointment.

Creator

Caitlin Woodington

Source

Florida Native Plant Society database entry for Ficus Aurea

Atlas of Florida Plants database entry for Ficus Aurea

Allen et al, 2003

Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, n.d.

Contributor

Caitlin Woodington

Identifier

RIFfasf

Coverage

Found in the following counties: Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, St. Lucie, Volusia