Sycamore Fig
Classification
Commonly known as either the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry, this fig tree is from the Kingdome Plantae, Phylum angiosperm, Class eudicots, Order Rosales, Family Moraceae, Genus Ficus and Species Ficus sycomorus (Wikipedia 2014).
From the Moraceae family, there are around 113 species and with each taxon having a wasp species being able to pollinate it. The Genus Ficus, including the subgenus Sycomorus, has subgenus such as: Sycidium, Pharmacosycea and Urostigma. Each of this subgenus has a number of different types of fig trees with different characteristics that defines them (Noort and Rasplus).
Eudicots triumphs monocots in having more angiosperm species under its definition. A few differences that separate monocots with eudicots is that the seed has two cotyledons and the veins in the leaves are webbed and not parallel (Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged).
For traits in the order Rosales, these are flowering plants that can grow in great numbers around the world. The members of these class are also usually woody plants and the flowers tend to be symmetric and with both stamen and carpels (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
A distinctive trait to the genus is that the fruit is inflorescence in the sense that inside a fig, there are a number of flowers and seeds that compose it (Kline 2011). Because of the layout, it is important that seed dispersal is biotic. The opening of the fig is called the ostiole and it is so small that only a fig wasp is able to enter and pollinate it. The sycamorus fig tree, as others from this genus, has two types of flowers. One type is called a monoecious flower and the other is a dioecious flower (Noort and Rasplus). Over the hundreds of fig trees in the ...
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