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"Ficus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... produced as an exudation upon the branches of certain Asiatic trees, such as the banyan (Ficus religiosa). It is due to punctures in the bark of the trees in question, which punctures are made by the female of the insect coccus ficus or ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... December. A man can collect six pounds a day, though this is rarely done. It is frequently adulterated with sand. The tree belongs to the same apetalous family as our castor-oil and the mandioca; while the tree which furnishes the caoutchouc of the East Indies and Africa is a species of Ficus, and yields an inferior article to the rubber of America. Other characteristic trees are the Mongruba, one of the few which shed their foliage before the new leaf-buds expand; the giant Samauema, or silk-cotton tree (called huimba in Peru); the Calabash, or cuieira, whose gourd-like fruit ...
— The Andes and the Amazon - Across the Continent of South America • James Orton |
Words linked to "Ficus" : Ficus deltoidea, Ficus religiosa, dicot genus, Ficus carica, golden fig, strangler fig, Ficus rubiginosa, Moraceae, Ficus bengalensis, wild fig, mulberry family, Ficus elastica, Ficus sycomorus, genus Ficus, magnoliopsid genus, fig tree, Florida strangler fig, sycamore fig |
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