Ficus
in botany, genus of Moraceæ; flowers unisexual, the males and females mixed indiscriminately on the inner side of a concave fleshy receptacle, the upper margin of which constitutes a narrow aperture. Flowers separated from each other by soft, colorless, bristle-like bracts or scales. The genus is a very large one, about 600 species being already known. They occur in all the hotter parts of the world.