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Trees , evergreen, to 20 m. Roots aerial, sometimes present on branches, pendent, sometimes reaching ground and forming pillar-roots. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets yellow. Leaves: stipules 1-1.5 cm; petiole 1-6 cm. Leaf blade ovate to oblong or obovate, 6-12(-15) × 3.5-6 cm, leathery, base rounded to cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse or shortly and bluntly acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more these not uniformly spaced. Syconia usually paired, usually sessile, rarely with peduncles to 5 mm, red or yellow, obovoid, 6-15 mm diam., glabrous; subtending bracts 2, 3-5 mm, glabrous; ostiole prominent, closed by 3 conspicuous scales.

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Ficus aurea Nutt., N. Amer. Sylv. 2(4): pl. 43. 1846; F. tuerckheimii Standl.; F. jimenezii Standl.; F. isophlebia Standl.

Arboles, hasta 30 m de alto, iniciándose como epífitos pero tornándose independientes; ramas glabras, café obscuras o grises, con depresiones escalariformes dejadas por los higos caídos. Hojas variables en forma y tamaño, oblongas, elípticas a ampliamente ovadas, 7–20 cm de largo y 2.5–10 cm de ancho, obtusas a obtusamente acuminadas en el ápice, cuneadas, redondeadas a subcordadas en la base, glabras, lisas y rígidamente cartáceas cuando secas, 7–10 pares de nervios secundarios, enlazados formando un marcado nervio colector submarginal, nervios terciarios inconspicuos; pecíolos 1.5–3.5 (–5) cm de largo, glabros, estípulas 1–2 (–3) cm de largo, glabras a menudamente puberulentas. Higos 2 por nudo, globosos a oblatos, 0.8–1.4 cm de diámetro, glabros, verdes a rojos, a veces con manchas purpúreas, ostíolo ligeramente prominente, sésiles, dejando al caer depresiones escalariformes en el tallo, brácteas basales 2, 4–8 mm de largo, cubriendo una gran porción del higo, con un área basal engrosada y disciforme, glabras.

Localmente común, bosques muy húmedos, nebliselvas, bosques deciduos, zonas atlántica y norcentral; 50–1600 m; Moreno 22422, Stevens 9624; Florida a Panamá y las antillas.

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Ficus aurea grows as a large tree to 20 meters in height, a trunk to 1.25 meters in diameter, with branches producing aerial roots that can become secondary trunks. The leaves are arranged alternately, to 25 cm in length, oblong with an entire margin and an acuminate leaf apex. Where the petiole attaches to the stem there is a prominent ring on the stem formed from the dehiscent apical sheath. The apical sheath has a slight hook at its tip known as a “cat’s claw.” Vegetative material produces milky latex when broken.Ficus aurea is monoecious. The highly reduced, incomplete, imperfect, actinomorphic flowers are borne entirely within a structure known as a synconium (fig) and are fertilized by wasps. Staminate flowers have a perianth of 2-6 parts and 2 anthers. The carpellate flowers have no perianth or stamens and a single superior carpel. The berry-like “fruit” is without a stalk, being sessile on the stem and turns yellowish-red at maturity.Ficus aurea is distinguished from F. citrifolia by having leaves that are a lighter green and the “fruit” is sessile on the stem

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Ficus aurea grows in Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation – Forests/Woodlands/ and Shrublands in and around sinkholes. It is occasionally found in Sabal palmetto- dominated woodlands.Ficus aurea is often known to germinate while on other trees forming roots that may encompass the trunk of the “host” giving it the name of Strangler Fig.

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Ficus aurea

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Ficus aurea is used in the Lucayan to treat cancer, gastrointestinal problems (constipation, worms), circulatory issues (heart ailments), dermatological matters, and pain (tooth aches).

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