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Food- The fruit has a pleasant, sweet-sour flavour somwhat like gooseberries. Medicine- The immature fruit is used to treat constipation. A paste of the fruit is applied to the forehead to relieve headaches.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
Wet tropical biome.
Deciduous tree height 15m tall
Bark is dark-grey, young twigs covered with white or pale-brownish short hairs.
Elliptic to oblong, with a rounded base and tapering tip.
Small, inconspicuous, produced inside the fig (syconium).
Spherical to pear-shaped, pink or dull reddish-brown, often developing underground.
Flowering: 600-2000m.