Family:
moraceae
Synonym: Saccus heterophyllus (Lam.)
Kuntze
Vernacular
name:
Plavu
Habit:
Tree
Habitat:
Evergreen tree
Distribution: Widely cultivated in the tropics, origin is probably
South India
Flowering
& Fruiting: March- August
Key
identification features: Trunk usually tubercled; bark
blackish-grey, lenticels reddish- brown, irregularly flaky; blaze cream.
Flowers unisexual, in spikes enclosed by spathe-like bracts; male flowers in
narrow cylindrical-oblong catkin on young branches; female flowers usually
cauliflorus. Fruit and Seed Syncarp (sorosis), large, oblong, with short hard
echinate processes.
Uses:
Used as Food ,fodder ,fuelwood
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