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Dorstenia

Family: Moraceae

Dorstenia contrajerva - Contra Hierba

These plants are seedlings grown from seeds collected at Rancho Kiuic on the Yucatan peninsula.

Dorstenia mannii

Erect stems with well-developed internodes and radiate syconia

Dorstenia mannii

close-up of the radiate syconium

Dorstenia bahiensis

This species hitch-hiked into the UR greenhouse as a seedling in some other potted plant. This Dorstenia is vigorous and proving itself to be self-compatible, highly fertile, and somewhat weedy. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.