| Latin Name | Observation Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Ficus heterophylla | May 13, 2026 | Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh |
On the afternoon of May 13th, I was walking along the side of the road in our area. Suddenly, a wild creeper tree growing on top of other trees caught my eye. The tree was bearing some small, strange and beautiful fruits. Seeing the white dots on the fruit and light pink or reddish spots on the top, I became quite curious and took a few close-up pictures with my lens. Later, by checking the internet, I found out some great information about this creeper tree, which I am sharing with you today.
Name and Family: According to the information, the scientific name of this strange and beautiful creeper tree is Ficus heterophylla. It is basically a plant of the (Moraceae) or fig family. In our Bangladesh and surrounding areas, it is commonly known as 'Bhui Dumur', 'Ballam Dumur' or 'Ghati-Sheora'.
Size and Habitat: Although common fig trees are much larger, the biggest feature of the Bhuy fig is that it is a creeping or bushy plant. It usually grows in damp places, river banks, ponds or around wetlands and grows by rolling on the ground or climbing over other trees and fences. Another great aspect of this plant is the diversity of its leaves - sometimes round, sometimes betel leaf-like, and sometimes grooved leaves can be seen on the same tree.
Fruit structure: The round fruits you see in the picture, according to the characteristics of the fig family, are green in color when raw and have small white hairs or dots on them. There is a small hole or reddish spot at the very top of the fruit (which is called Ostiole in botany). When ripe, they usually turn dark red or brown.
Benefits: Although it is a wild plant, it has quite good medicinal properties. This prickly pear is known to be used in traditional rural medicine, especially to treat infections or wounds on the nails of the hands or feet. In addition, its small fruits are a great food source for various birds and insects in the natural ecosystem.
Harmfulness: It does not have any major harmful effects. However, since it is creeping and grows very quickly, if it grows around crop fields or landscaped gardens, it can often entangle other small plants and hinder their normal growth and can become a weed.
All in all, I like this creeping prickly pear tree quite a lot. Do you see such prickly pears in the bushes or on the banks of ponds in your area? You can tell me in the comments.
I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.
(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.)
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| Camera Used | Samsung SM-G973F |
|---|---|
| F-Stop | F2.4 |
| ISO speed | ISO |
| Focal length | 26mm |
| Flash | No |
| Editing app | No |
| Photography | (Ficus heterophylla) |
| Photographer | @mshbd |
| Location | Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh |
| Link to original community |
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| https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/363678123 |
| Latitude | Longitude | Map Link |
|---|---|---|
| 24.3366 | 89.1113 | https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=12/24.3366/89.1113 |
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Hello @livinquktaiwan, @palomap3, I am writing to you with a heavy heart regarding the downvotes on my two recent posts ("Ficus heterophylla" and "Green Rice Leafhopper").
I am a small creator on Hive. It takes me about 2-3 hours of hard work to create a post. I spend a lot of time in nature taking these perfect macro photos of insects and plants. Then it takes me even more time to study them and edit the post to provide accurate information in my post. After all this hard work, such downvotes for no reason completely break the spirit and enthusiasm of small and honest creators like me.
Can you please tell me why my two posts were downvoted? If I have made any mistake in formatting or tags without my knowledge, please let me know so that I can correct it immediately. However, if my posts have been downvoted by mistake or due to some automated blind trail, I respectfully request you to please remove the downvotes. I truly respect this platform and only want to share my honest work here.
Thank you for your time and understanding.🙏
You post multiple times a day, often in the same community because you know you can get the auto upvotes. All your content is of the same nature, so why not include them in one post instead of breaking them up into two posts to milk rewards. You extract the content from the internet, which no one reads because there is no real human engagement on your posts. In the past week, only 1 real person has commented.
You use a template, so who knows how much of your content is real?
People view rewards differently on Hive, the fact that you spend a lot of time and effort creating content does not necessarily mean it deserves all the rewards you get especially when you are doing it deliberately to milk auto upvotes.
Dear @livinguktaiwan,
Thank you very much for your detailed answer. I completely understand your point of view, and I sincerely apologize if my posting style made it seem like I was just trying to collect rewards. That was never my intention. Please allow me to clarify a few things from my side.
Regarding the template and format: I was basically following the rules of the Nature Observer community, which mandates the use of a specific table for locations and links to i-Naturalist. Everyone in this community uses this table. Since the rules of this community require a separate entry for each observation, I assumed that I would have to create a separate post for each insect or plant. That is exactly why I did not combine them into one big post.
Regarding the content: I am an agronomist by profession, so I have a basic understanding of insects and plants. However, to provide accurate information to the readers, I always study those species on iNaturalist, Google and Wikipedia. Then I write the detailed information completely in my own language. I deliberately use headers or points like "name, size, habitat, food, benefits" so that people can read and understand the main information very easily and in a short time. This is not an automated template, but a style I have chosen for the convenience of the readers. I can say 100% sure that there is no copy-paste in my writing.
About location or place: You may have noticed that the same location is coming up again and again in my posts. The reason for this is that I am now spending my free time in my garden. Whenever I see a new insect or plant there, I take macro photos of them. I still have about 20 types of insect photos taken from this same garden in my gallery, I can happily show them if you need them.
I admit that I was posting twice a day, because I have a lot of free time now. But I want to assure you that I have not cashed out a single penny of my rewards till date in my 50+ days on Hive. I have powered up 100% of my rewards, as my goal is to grow the account and help other members of the community through power delegation and upvotes in the future. When I get busy with my regular work, my posting rate will naturally decrease.
Since I have a lot of new content ready to go from my garden field, can I make 2 posts in a 24-hour period (10-12 hours apart) on the Nature Observer community? If this is not allowed as per your guidelines, please let me know. I will definitely abide by your decision and limit myself to one post per day.
I am still new here and learning the unwritten rules of this ecosystem little by little. I hope you will look at my situation with a forgiving eye. Thank you again for guiding me.🙏🙏
No one can stop you from posting on Hive and you are free to post as many or as few times as you like. Or to self vote yourself if you must - that is another action frowned upon by many on Hive. I am just expressing my views on what I see as issues.
Since you say you are an agronomist by profession and it is clear that your content has next to zero traction, have you considered diversifying your content to widen your audience?
Dear @livinguktaiwan,
Thank you very much for understanding my point of view and giving valuable advice. I really appreciate it.
You are absolutely right about diversifying my content. Actually, apart from insects, I have a big garden and pond. I am currently writing a post about my garden bananas and new cool flowers. Apart from that, I also post occasionally on Hive Garden and Worldmappin communities to showcase different aspects of my daily life and farming. As per your suggestion, I will definitely try to diversify my content more so that it can reach more people.
I had a small confusion or question, it would be great if you could clarify a little. The Ecency app shows 'views' (like 15 or 17 views) above each post. Aren't these views considered real human engagement or traction? As a new user, I thought that people might be reading the posts even if they don't comment.
Thank you again for taking the time to guide me. Your feedback is helping me understand the Hive ecosystem better.