An beautiful fig which certainly has ornamental value because of the rusty-backed leaves and neat appearance. It is a strangling fig and typically starts life off as an epiphyte on other trees The figs ripen orange or red and were eaten by aborigines. I’d love to try it too. The sap is sticky and were also used for trapping birds.
Closeup of figs
Leaf venation
Habit
About David Tng
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David Tng, a hedonistic botanizer who pursues plants with a fervour. I chase the opportunity to delve into various aspects of the study of plants. I have spent untold hours staring at mosses and allied plants, taking picture of pollen, culturing orchids in clean cabinets, counting tree rings, monitoring plant flowering times, etc. I am currently engrossed in the study of plant ecology (a grand excuse to see 'anything I can). Sometimes I think of myself as a shadow taxonomist, a sentimental ecologist, and a spiritual environmentalist - but at the very root of it all, a "plant whisperer"!
Leaf Whispering in the Tropics 