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from Division 5 - Magnoliophyta
Trees, shrubs and climbers, lactiferous. Leaves usually alternate. Inflorescence axillary, variable, monoecious or dioecious; flowers small, unisexual. Perianth usually 4-lobed. Male flower with 2 or 4 stamens, rudimentary ovary sometimes present. Female flower with ovary superior or inferior, usually 1-locular; styles usually 2, filiform. Fruit usually drupaceous; seeds with or without endosperm.
Contains 53 genera with about 1400 species in mainly tropical and temperate regions, much cultivated.
Fruit of numerous drupelets crowded into a syncarp 1. Morus
Fruit a syconium, soft and fleshy, containing numerous achenes 2. Ficus
Morus L.
Deciduous, monoecious or dioecious trees. Buds with 3–6 scales. Leaves dentate or lobed; stipules caducous. Inflorescence an axillary spike; flowers unisexual. Male flowers with 4-lobed perianth and 4 stamens, sometimes with a rudimentary ovary. Female flowers with a 4-lobed perianth and a style with 2 branches. Ovary 1- or 2-locular, superior. Fruit of numerous drupelets crowded into a syncarp.
Contains about 12 species in temperate and subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere.
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