- Scientific Name: Ficus pumila L.
- Ref: Sp. Pl.:1060. 1753
- Synonyms:
- Ficus hanceana Maxim.
- F. longipedicellata H.Perrier
- F. scandens Lam.
- F. stipulata Thunb.
- F. vestita Desf.
- Urostigma scandens Liebm.
- Varinga repens Raf.
- English Common Name: creeping fig, climbing fig
- Chinese Common Name: 薜荔 bìlì, 凉粉果 liángfěn∙guǒ, 凉粉子 liángfěn∙zǐ, 鬼馒头 guǐ∙mántou
- Japanese Common Name: オオイタビ [大崖石榴] ōitabi
- Family: Moraceae
- Genus: Ficus
- Distribution: Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Vietnam].
Shrubs, climbers or scandent. Rooting branchlets sterile. Stipules lanceolate, with yellow brown silklike hairs. Leaves distichous, leaf blade on fertile branchlets different in shape than ones on sterile branches, ovate-cordate, ovate-elliptic, or oblong-ovate, 5-12 × 2-5 cm, abaxially pubescent, base rounded to slightly cordate, margin entire, apex obtuse, acute, or acuminate; veins conspicuous, honeycomblike; basal lateral veins elongated, secondary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midvein, abaxially prominent, and adaxially impressed. Figs axillary on normal leafy branches, solitary, yellowish green to pale red when mature, pear-shaped to ± globose or cylindric, 4-8 × 3-5 cm, shortly yellow pubescent when young, basally attenuate into a short stalk, apical pore truncate, navel-like, or acuminate; peduncle to ca. 1 cm, thick; involucral bracts triangular-ovate, densely covered with long pubescence, persistent. Male flowers: many, in several rows near apical pore, pedicellate; calyx lobes 2 or 3, linear; stamens 2; filaments short. Gall flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 3 or 4, linear; style lateral, short. Female flowers: pedicel long; calyx lobes 4 or 5; achenes ± globose, with adherent liquid. Fl. and fr. May-Aug. (Flora of China)
