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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Ficus religiosa L.
Botree, Sacred fig

Ficus religiosa
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Family: Moraceae

Group: Dicot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Tree

Perennation: Perennial

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Present

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Not reported for the Florida Keys by John Kunkel Small in 1913. This is in the early stages of naturalizing in the Florida Keys.

Other data on Ficus religiosa available from :






Ficus religiosa has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Ficus religiosa
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Ficus religiosa
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Ficus religiosa
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr

Ficus religiosa
Copyright by: Forest & Kim Starr