Ficus americana
A small-leaved strangler fig found from Florida and the Caribbean through Mexico and Central America to central Brazil. It grows as a shrub or tree up to 30 m tall, often starting life as an epiphyte on another tree. The Andean subspecies andicola grows in cool mountain climates and is widely planted in Colombian cities, which dominate the records.
Where it grows wild
It is a hemiepiphytic strangler fig. Seedlings germinate high on host trees and send roots down to the ground. It also grows as a free-standing shrub or tree in forest, forest edges and pastures. It is pollinated by Pegoscapus fig wasps, and its fruit ripens at different times from tree to tree, which makes it an important food for animals.
Records span 4–3010 m (median 2548 m, 752 records). The high median comes from Bogotá, where it is a common planted tree. Most of the wild range is lowland and foothill forest.
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