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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.