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Culinary Herbs & Leaves
Cluster Fig Leaf
Ficus racemosa
The cluster fig (sung) is a large tree with no aerial roots, and it grows wild and planted throughout Vietnam. Its lance-shaped leaves are eight to twenty centimetres long, downy on both faces when young and stiffening as they age, the margin entire or sparsely toothed; a psyllid insect often galls them into the small bumps Vietnamese calls vú sung. The figs are not true fruits but hollow flower cups, borne in clusters straight from the trunk and from thick leafless branches, pear-shaped, downy, three centimetres long and red-brown when ripe. It is the young leaves that are eaten, most often as the wrapper for nem.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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