Small-leafed Fig

Description

Ficus obliqua, commonly known as the small-leaved fig, is a tree in the family Moraceae, native to eastern Australia, New Guinea, eastern Indonesia to Sulawesi and islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Previously known for many years as Ficus eugenioides, it is a banyan of the genus Ficus, which contains around 750 species worldwide in warm climates, including the edible fig Ficus carica. Beginning life as a seedling, which grows on other plants epiphyte or on rocks lithophyte, F. obliqua can grow to 60 m 200 ft high and nearly as wide with a pale grey buttressed trunk, and glossy green leaves.