Ficus deltoidea Jack
Mistletoe Fig / Ara/Ara bini/Mas cotek (Bru.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
Distribution
Precaution
Terrestrial woody shrub that can reach up to 3 m tall. Leaves are simple, spirally and alternately arranged, sessile and thickly leathery. Leaf blade is obovate, truncate or rounded at apex, cuneate-rounded at base with entire margin. Stems contain white sap. Barks are whitish- grey. Flowers are enclosed within a syconium (fig) that contains multiple fruits. Inflorescence a syconium (fig) borne at leaf axils. Fruit a globose fleshy fig that varies in colour from orange to purple or red. Seeds are
The leaves are pounded to extract the juice. The juice is taken to alleviate anaemia, especially after illnesses. Alternatively, the fresh fruits are eaten and applied externally to accelerate wound healing. The plant exhibits antibacterial, antifungal, antimalarial, oestrogenic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,
It is commonly found on forest edges, near streams and in undisturbed secondary and open forests. It prefers moist but well-drained sandy soil under sunlight.
Seeds and stem cutting.
Native to Southeast Asia, and widely naturalized in other parts of
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