Ficus broadwayi
Ficus broadwayi is a lowland neotropical fig from northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago, where it grows in Atlantic and Amazonian forest and in riverside forest on sandy soils. Brazilian herbarium labels describe it as a hemi-epiphyte with thick, fleshy leaves and large green figs: it starts life on another tree and later becomes a free-standing tree. It is rarely cultivated; grow it warm and bright with even moisture, like other strangler figs.
Where it grows wild
Lowland rainforest, Atlantic Forest and riparian forest (mata ciliar) on sandy soil. It germinates in the canopy of a host tree, sends roots down to the ground and can eventually become a self-supporting tree.
Lowland: records come from near sea level (Bahia, Tobago, CearΓ‘ coast) and from lowland Amazonian rivers; no high-elevation records were seen.
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