Ficus dammaropsis (Ficus dammaropsis)
Description
Ficus dammaropsis, kapiak (Tok Pisin), or highland breadfruit (English), is tropical fig tree with huge pleated leaves 60 cm (24 in) across. It is native to the highlands and highlands fringe of New Guinea. It generally grows at altitudes of between 800 and 2,750 metres (2,620 and 9,020 ft); its extreme range is from sea level to 2,820 m (9,250 ft). Its fruit is edible but rarely eaten except as an emergency food (Bourke nd:4, 11). The young leaves are pickled or cooked and eaten as a vegetable with pig meat (Kambuou 1996:22).
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Rosales
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Family: Moraceae
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Genus: Ficus
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