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Spatial patterns and determinants of #Moraceae richness in #China

#HydrothermalDynamicHypothesis | #TropicalNicheConservatismHypothesis | #Janzen’sHypothesis | #EnvironmentalFactor

Spatial patterns of Moraceae species richness in China.

Comparison of the effects of energy, water, seasonality and habitat heterogeneity on species richness across life forms and range size.

#Dorstenia gigas
#Yemen #Socotra # #Soqotra
at #botanicalGardens #copenhagen

"their reproductive structure, called #pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in #Moraceae #hypanthium is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes." [wikipedia]

@plants
#botany #plantscience @gbif

#Dorstenia gigas
#Yemen #Socotra # #Soqotra
at #botanicalGardens #copenhagen

"their reproductive structure, called #pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in #Moraceae #hypanthium is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes." [wikipedia]

@plants
#botany #plantscience @gbif

Yesterday's fig haul. Or at least part of it. Had to come in for another container. #figageddon #figs #ficus #fruit #syconium #moraceae #infructescence

Photo of a rectangular aluminum pan filled with several dozen ripe figs.

Making fig preserves. #figs #ficus #cooking #preserving #fruit #syconium #moraceae #infructescence

Photograph of a pot full of quartered figs with maroon skin, white flesh, and ruby centers.

The forests of the Amazon region feature a great diversity of native fig trees (Ficus spp.), many of them hemiepiphytes ("strangler figs"). The accessory fruits (syconium: a fleshy, globose and hollow inflorescence with tiny flowers and fruits on the inside) are an important food source for various animals. When this Ficus amazonica (Miq.) Miq. is producing its small figs, the birds (like this Euphonia violaceae) are feasting on them for several weeks.
#Amazonas #birds #Moraceae #botany #forest

Small bird with yellow underside and forehead, and a dark blue back (Euphonia violacea) sitting on a twig of the tropical fig tree, Ficus amazonica (Miq.) Miq., with leaves and a few round, green syconia (=figs)

Bread fruit. I think it's not ripe yet, but already fallen down neatly on top of the dry leave.

*Artocarpus altilis* #biophilia #Moraceae

Ostiolar bracts of a fig syconium. It's a squeeze, but this is the way in and out for the tiny wasps that do the pollinating. The ostiole is also where the volatiles that attract the wasps are released. #fig #Ficus #wasps #botany #Moraceae #fruit #entomology #Hymenoptera #nature

Close-up photograph of the overlapping bracts that line the distal end of a fig inflorescence.

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus). These are becoming quite common at grocery stores in the United States and I'm wondering whether they are imported from #Brazil, where the tree is highly invasive and the fruit is not particularly popular. I love it, plus it's good fun to watch other shoppers' faces when they see it in my cart. #Moraceae #botany #fruit #plants #InvasiveSpecies

Large oval fruit with scaly surface buckled into a car's passenger seat

(Pseudo) flowers of
#Dorstenia foetida verde

"... pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in Moraceae hypanthium,
which is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers
on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes."
[wikipedia]

#succulents #plantscience #botany #moraceae
#eastafrica #yemen #somalia #kenya #ethiopia #tanzania