Habit***: ours mostly trees, ***usually with milky sap
Leaves: alternate, simple, stipulate
Plants: monoecious or dioecious
Inflorescence***: dense raceme or flowers embeded in a fleshy receptacle
Sepals: usually 4, inconspicuous
Petals: absent
Stamens: usually 4, distinct, opposite the sepals
Gynoecium: of 2 connate carpels; ovary superior or inferior with 1 locule and 1 apical ovule
Fruit***: an achene or drupelet, ***usually agregated into a dense multiple fruit with accessory tissues (like a Strawberry....)
Diversity: 48 genera / 1200 species
Distribution: mostly tropical and subtropical
Economics: fruit--figs, breadfruit; rubber, timber, paper, cult. ornamentals