Ficus amplissima
A large evergreen to semi-deciduous fig from peninsular India and Sri Lanka. It often starts life as an epiphyte in another tree and sends down aerial roots that can eventually strangle its host. It becomes a spreading shade tree up to about 25 m tall. It is grown for shade in coffee estates and as a bonsai or indoor tree, and needs strong light and a monsoon rhythm of a warm dry season followed by a wet one.
Where it grows wild
A hemiepiphytic fig. It germinates in the branches of other trees and roots down to the ground, and is found as a subcanopy tree in disturbed evergreen and moist deciduous forest. It is common along roadsides, avenues, tank embankments and field boundaries, where many trees are planted or self-sown. Mature trees stand in full sun.
It grows up to about 1000 m. The records carry no elevations; the weighted climate sites were placed at 600–1160 m.
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