Dorstenia gigas Schweinf. ex Balf.f.

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Dorstenia gigas is a species of flowering plant in the Moraceae family. It is a succulent native to the Socotra Islands off the Horn of Africa.

Dorstenia gigas - Wikipedia

 

Dorstenia gigas is commonly called Socotra Fig and Socotra Fig Tree, but there are not scientific synonyms for this plant.

Habitat:

Dorstenia gigas is native to the Socotra Islands where the plant grows on limestone hills and sheer cliff faces and can spread up to 500 m in altitude.

Description:

Dorstenia gigas is a beautiful caudiciform shrub-like succulent belonging to the Moraceae botanical family. The plant has a branched habit and can reach huge size, up to 5 m in height and 1,5 m in diameter. This is the largest species in the genus! The stem is woody, stout, heavily branched, with maroon bark. The succulent is spineless and forms a thick and woody subterranean caudex, from this the plant branches, producing clumps of spherical tubercles. The plants that form the caudex use their subterranean tuber to store water and cope with long periods of drought. The leaves are lanceolate to elliptic, dark green in color, borne at the apex of the stems. Blooming occurs during the Spring and the blossoms are borne at the apex of the stems. The inflorescence is a cluster made of disc-shaped tiny flowers greenish to yellowish in color.

Dorstenia gigas - Giromagi Cactus and Succulents

 

 

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