Taxon: Ficus benjamina L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Ficus benjamina var. benjamina (no accessions)
• Ficus benjamina var. nuda (no accessions)

Common names:

• benjamin fig   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• benjamin-tree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Java fig   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Javatree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Malayan banyan   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• oval-leaf figtree   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• tropic-laurel   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• weeping fig   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• weeping-laurel   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• chui ye rong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• chui ye rong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
  
• cong mao chui ye rong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
  
• Benjamin-Feige   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Benjamin-Gummibaum   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Birkenfeige   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• waringin   (Source: Dict Gard ) – India (Hindi)
  
• wariengien   (Source: Names Watson ) – Indonesian
  
• beringan   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• ficus-benjamina   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• figueira-benjamina   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• benjaminfikus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide F Viti; F Ceylon)
  
• Invertebrate food: lac insects   (fide Mansf Ency)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong [s.w.], Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [e.]; Nepal
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n.e.]
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Watson, J. F. 1868. Index to the native and scientific names of Indian and other eastern economic plants and products.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ficus benjamina.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ficus benjamina.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ficus benjamina.

Synonyms:

• Ficus benjamina var. comosa (Roxb.) Kurz [= Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Ficus comosa Roxb. [= Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
  
• Ficus nitida Thunb. [= Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq. [≡ Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ficus schlechteri auct.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Ficus waringiana auct. [= Ficus benjamina var. benjamina]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Urostigma nudum Miq. [≡ Ficus benjamina var. nuda]
  

Check other web resources for Ficus benjamina L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds inside fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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