✿Moraceae · Ficus
Gobla / Crow Fig
Ficus hispida
Also known as Mad Fig, Brahma's Fig
TreeMedicinal
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala & more
- Flowering
- February-November
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ficus hispida
- Genus
- Ficus
- Family
- Moraceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, China, New Guinea, Queensland, Australia
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Odisha, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Puducherry, Tripura
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- OppositerecordedTwo leaves arise from the stem at the same point, facing each other.“Ficus hispida, also known as the opposite leaf Fig, is a small tree in the family Moraceae, with a distribution ranging from India and southern China southwards to northern Austral” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- Elliptic (widest at middle)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gobla itself; the rest are typical of the Moraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Catkin
- Fruit
- Drupe
Typical of the Moraceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Hindi
- गोबला Gobla, कगशा Kagsha, काला उम्बर Kala umbar
- Nepali
- खस्रेटो Khasreto, ठोट्ने Thotne, कोठाया डुम्री Kothaayaa Dumree
- Tamil
- பேயத்தி Peyatti
- Telugu
- బొమ్మమేడి Bomma-medi
- Kannada
- ಕಾಡತ್ತಿ Kaadatthi, ಅಡವಿ ಅತ್ತಿ Adavi atthi, ಕಲ್ಲತ್ತಿ Kallatthi
- Malayalam
- എരുമനാക്ക് Erumanaakk, കാട്ടത്തി Kaattaththi, പാറകം Paarakam
- Marathi
- बोकेडा Bokeda, बोखाडा Bokhada, बोखेडा Bokheda
About Gobla
Crow Fig (Ficus hispida) is a tree in the Moraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and 23 other states. It grows in moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in plains. Flowering and fruiting run from February to November.
Botanical family
Moraceae
Fig/Mulberry family
Gobla belongs to the Moraceae family.
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