Ficus atricha
Ficus atricha is a rock fig from the monsoonal Kimberley and the Northern Territory in tropical north-western Australia. It forms a pale-barked shrub or small tree 2 to 10 m tall, with roots wedged into sandstone, laterite and quartzite outcrops above water. It wants full sun, heat and sharp drainage, with a long dry season, which makes it better suited to a sunny patio, greenhouse or bonsai pot than to a shaded interior.
Where it grows wild
FloraBase records it on skeletal soils, sand over sandstone, laterite, dolerite and quartzite, at rocky sites above water such as gorge walls and outcrops. Its roots force their way into rock crevices, hence the common name, and it grows in the open savanna country of the Kimberley.
A lowland to low-upland plant of the Kimberley plateaus and gorges, mostly below about 700 m. The sources give no exact figures.
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