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Indian Rock Fig

Ficus arnottiana

IUCN: Least Concern
Indian Rock Fig (Ficus arnottiana) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jamwa Ramgarh, Vishanpura, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Ficus arnottiana
Family
Moraceae, order Rosales
Group
Plant
Conservation status
Least Concern

A fig that grows from cracks in rock.

  • Spot it Heart-shaped leaves with long tips, often on rocks.
  • Home Rocky hills.
  • Food web Birds, bats and monkeys eat the figs.
  • Why it matters A keystone tree: its figs feed many animals, who spread the seeds.

Read more: Ficus arnottiana on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2009, in Vishanpura.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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