cauliflory

It is unusual in that its figs grow on or close to the tree trunk, termed cauliflory.

The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring (cauliflory).

With fruit, plants may instead have fruit which drop from the canopy and ripen only after they reach the ground, an alternative "strategy" to cauliflory.

The inflorescences are loose thyrses of flowers, growing from leaf axils (axillary) or directly from the stem (cauliflory).

They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the early spring on bare leafless shoots, on both branches and trunk ("cauliflory").

Pundir, Y. P. S: On the cauliflorous mode of flowering cauliflory in Dendrophthoe falcata Lf Ettingsh Loranthaceae.

The flowers are small and numerous, spirally arranged along the inflorescence axis in catkin-like racemes borne on spurs from old wood and even on the trunk (cauliflory); they are pollination by both wind and insects.