稜果榕
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## Scientific name & Common name
***Ficus septica Burm. f.***
**桑科(Moraceae)榕屬(Ficus)**
稜果榕，又名豬母乳、常綠榕
Angular Fruit Fig

## Morphology
* **root**
The special introduction of root can not be found. :)
* **stem**
The bark is smooth and gray-white, with smooth and thick twigs that are brown in color, featuring prominent leaf scars. The sap is milky yellow. The trunk often grows in a slanted manner, not straight.
* **leaf**
Leaves are symmetric, elliptic to oblong. The texture is like leathery or thick papery. The leaf margins are entire, with the surface being rough and glossy, while the underside is smooth and lighter in color.
* **flower**
Syconium inflorescence. Dioecious.
The male flowers and insect galls grow on the same inflorescence, while female flowers grow on a different inflorescence.
The female flowers have entire perianths, with rod-shaped, unbranched stigmas that have short hairs at the tip. The ovary is ovate and smooth.
The gall flowers long pedicellate, perianth lobes short, stigma dilated.
* **seed**
The special introduction of seed can not be found. :)
* **fruit**
The syconium fruit is flattened spherical, growing in the leaf axils, with white spots on the surface. Due to the presence of ridges, it is known as the ridged fig.

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## Adapation
**How this plant adapt to an aquatic environment**
Ficus septica can expell some water drops itself, and this activity is called “guttation”. Guttation is common with many species of ficus. It can live in various soil types such as limestone.

## Distribution
**Native distributions**
At low altitudes from northeast India to north Australia (Queensland), and throughout Malesia.

**Current distributions**
Widespread in S. Asia and E. Asia southern Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, northern Australia, Solomon Islands.
(more widely than before)

## Ecology
**Habitat**
Ficus septica live in low altitude areas, often along mountains or streams.

**Pollination**
Ficus septica are usually pollinated by rats, bats, and especially Fig wasp.

**Dispersal**
Ficus septica are usually dispersaled animals and insects.

## Others
**傳統藥用**
其樹皮可以解食物中毒或是毒魚或貝類咬傷的毒。

**其他用途**
因為稜果榕的葉子很大，所以約民國40年代，塑膠袋還沒普及時，有些商人會將其葉片拿來包裝食物，像是豆腐、豬肉。

**實地觀察心得**
他的葉子真的**超大片**的，以前看其他榕屬的樹葉，像是菩提樹、大榕樹、白榕或食用無花果，他們的葉子都小小的，所以我第一眼看到稜果榕的時候完全認不出來QAQ，是我看了他的果實小小、有稜角，跟我家種植的可食無花果很像我才認出來。

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# Reference
[Wikipedia](https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E7%A8%9C%E6%9E%9C%E6%A6%95)
[稜果榕](http://kplant.biodiv.tw/%E7%A8%9C%E6%9E%9C%E6%A6%95/%E7%A8%9C%E6%9E%9C%E6%A6%95.htm)
[Ficus septica: Introduction](https://borneoficus.info/2017/03/11/ficus-septica-introduction/)
[Ficus septica Burm.f.](https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Ficus%20septica)
[Ficus septica](https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ficus+septica)