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Family Moraceae
Ficus tinctoria 斜葉榕
Stranglers with Many Roots
Dioecious 雌雄異株

POLLINATOR for Ficus tinctoria
Male ♂1.0mm
Female ♀0.7+1.5mm

NON-POLLINATOR for Ficus tinctoria

♂ 1.2mm
♂ 1.5mm
♂ 1.6mm

♀ 1.0mm
♀ 1.5mm
♀ 2.2mm
♀ 3.0mm

 

Straight Line
Pointed
Rounded

From the largest Ficus tinctoria tree, leaves from two different branches are compared. The leaves shape are slitely

Young fruiting Tinctoria at Semarak
Largest photographed Tinctoria tree in Semporna

Semarak ♀8.85mm
Semporna ♀8.90mm

2023-02-09

Ficus tinctoria 斜葉榕
Stranglers with Many Roots
Dioecious 雌雄異株
 

Semporna 2023-02-09 THU 17:18

Leave from a female tree of Ficus tinctoria at Jalan Utara Baru, Tawau.
 

Comparision of leave size of  F. caulocarpa and F. tinctoria

Ficus caulocarpa 14cm by 7cm
Ficus tinctoria 10cm by 5cm

Male and Female FRUIT WASPS from a female F. tinctoria fruit

Male ♂3mm
Female ♀2.5mm

Jalan Hill Top 2021-06-28 MON 15:34

Female Fruit 11.4mm

Emerging hole ducked out by FRUIT WASPS from inside fruit.

Anselmella sp TINCTORIA
This pair of male and female wasp are identified to the Genus Anselmella. Species unidentified yet. It is temporary coded as sp. TINCTORIA as they were found in a female fruit of Ficus Tinctoria.

Anselmella sp TINCTORIA is a pest wasp. In Ficus fruit development, they are NON-POLLINATORS (non-pollinating wasp).
 

Family Eulophidae 釉小蜂科
Anselmella sp TINCTORIA
婆羅洲釉小蜂之一
 

Genus Anselmella

Leaves of Ficus tinctoria

The leaves are varied often rhombic (squared off)

Alternately arrange oval leaves, to 18x9 cm, glossy dark green above, pale green below, and have rounded tip and base. Leaves are often asymmetrial.

Dye Fig is a climbing strangler, forming a tree with prop-roots, to 25m.

Stalks are thick, to 1.5 cm. Fruit is a fig, appearing in leaf axils, usually paired, round, to 1.5 cm, ripening through orange to red or purple. The fruit of dye fig are the source of a red dye used in traditional fabric making in parts of Indonesia.
 

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