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    M

    ulberries and figs

    ORACEAE
    THIS IS REAL.
    IS ME.
    Monoecious or dioecious
    40 genera.
    1140 species.
    A dietary supplement, general tonic, and
    used to enhance heath. The plant is used as
    Milky or watery latex
    Aerial, prop, and buttress roots a potent anti-diabetic, hypolipidemic, anti-
    Alternate, simple, entire, hypertensive and antimicrobial.
    pinnately veined, green-colored leaves
    Woody with secondary growth, cylindrical
    or slightly flattened stems up to 5-15 m long
    and 10-15 cm wide.
    ENDEMIC in
    PINAS
    Flowers are unisexual, small, and vary in
    structure, as do inflorescences. Moraceae has a global distribution,
    Aggregate or drupaceous fruits are lodged
    in a fleshy receptacle known as a syncarp. It
    from tropical to temperate regions
    can also be a multiple of achenes, with each
    unit achene often covered by an accrescent,
    especially in Asia.
    fleshy perianth that resembles a drupe or
    carried on a fleshy compound receptacle. I am a plant, a tree, or a shrub.

    This is a Burgundy, a dark leaf selection of India rubber tree that features very
    dark green, nearly black leaves with red mid-veins. Its leaves can reach up to
    12" long and 4" wide and their new foliage emerges red before maturing
    which can reach up to 40' tall with a similar spread.

    Did this attract your attention? .


    If yes, I am .Ficus elastica

    Balete
    I am native to India
    and Southeast Asia

    This is a medium-sized, quickly growing deciduous tree with a height of 25 to


    35 meters. Its leaves have rounded lobes and can grow up to 30 cm (12 in)
    long. The upper leaf surface is generally waxy and glossy. They have a deep
    and complicated lobed structure. Their fruit measures 1-1.5 centimeters long
    it might be white, pink, or red.

    Did its beauty capture your eye?


    If yes, I am Morus alba

    Amoras
    I am Endemic in
    the Philippines

    This is a widely spreading tree that can reach a height of 15 meters or more. The
    branchlets are long and setosely hairy. Its leaves are papery, flat, covered with
    long reddish-brown hairs, especially beneath, oval, 10 to 20 centimeters long,
    with entire or toothed margins, upon 3- to 5-cm long, very thick, and long-
    haired petioles. Their fruit is stalkless, small, and angularly obovoid, and it
    grows in small, nearly spherical heads about long.

    Are you familiar with me?


    If yes, I am Ficus minahassae

    Hagimit
    I am Endemic in
    the Philippines

    This plant has a naked, unbranched stem capped with a cluster of leaves like a
    palm. This shrub can reach a height of 5m. Its leaves are crowded at the ends of
    the stems, spreading and short-petioled, oblongate in shape with a cordate
    base and an acute apex. Its blade is leathery and dark green, coarsely toothed
    that can grow to be more than 25 cm long. Their fruit is ovoid, angular, up to 4
    centimeters long, on short peduncles, and bound in the leaf axils.

    Did this make you want to take me?

    MORACEAE
    Ficus
    If yes, I am pseudopalma

    MORACEAE
    Lubi-Lubi
    I am Endemic in
    the Philippines

    MORACEAE
    This has a short and strong buttresses stem. Its outer bark is grayish-black, while
    the inner bark produces white latex. Its leaves are simple and spirally structured,
    with one to three pairs of lobes. The hairy petioles are 8 cm long, and the long
    hairy stipules are about 10 cm long. The flowers are small and grow in separate
    male and female axillary inflorescences. Their fruit measures approximately 6.5

    MORACEAE
    cm in diameter, has a spine-like structure, and ripens to yellow and orange-
    brown. The seeds are inserted in the fleshy part of the fruit.

    Did this pique your interest in me?


    Artocarpus
    If yes, I am blancoi

    Antipolo
    I am Endemic in
    the Philippines

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