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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Ficus L.
Flowers attached to the inner wall of the invaginated
floral
axis (fig or
syconium
)
Ficus
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Shrub
or
tree
, sometimes epiphytic and strangling in early stages
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Leaves very scabrous on the upper surface.
Aerial roots
absent
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Leaves smooth on the upper surface. Aerial shoots present. Epiphytes or on rocks in early stages (“Strangler Figs”)