800 species
Flower fruit.
The flowers remain inside the closed fig and the seeds are packaged there in.
Wasps are the polinators, and must crawl through the fig opening to lay eggs.
Flavonoids and polyphenols, antioxidants
Toxic skin allergens, and the sap is a serious eye irritant
Subgenus: Ficus
species CARICA
Edible Fig
Subgenus: Urostigma
species ELASTICA
Rubber Fig
Subgenus: Urostigma
Maui
I think it is a "Indian Banyan".
Extreme south end of Island at the winery
Someone said it was a Ficus tree. It does not look like a fig tree.
It looks like a banyan tree!
In fact, I am sitting on old drop down roots that have been incorporated into the trunk.
Ficus Tree
