Ficus verruculosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Moraceae
Tribe:	Ficeae
Genus:	Ficus
Species:	F. verruculosa
Binomial name
Ficus verruculosa Warb.

Ficus verruculosa, the water fig, is a species of fig from sub-saharan Africa.

It is found from north eastern South Africa, northern Botswana and Namibia to Uganda and west to Nigeria in riverine and swamp fringes or grassland, always near water.^[1] It is pollinated by the wasp Platyscapa binghami.^[2]

The growth form of Ficus verruculosa is as a shrub, or weak-stemmed, sparsely branched shrub 0.2-0.6 m tall, less often a small tree up to 12m, often forming low, creeping thickets. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 3.5-20 x 1.5-8.5 cm, leathery, hairless. Figs are produced mostly in pairs in leaf axils, greenish when unripe, ripening to red^[3] and are fed on by African green pigeons Treron calvus.^[4]

References

External links

• Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Ficus verruculosa". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.

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