Ficus caulocarpa
Ficus caulocarpa is a lowland fig of tropical and subtropical Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines and New Guinea. It often starts life as a strangler or grows as a shrubby multi-stemmed tree up to about 20 m, with aerial roots and large glabrous leaves that are shed and replaced several times a year. In cultivation it behaves like a vigorous banyan-type fig that wants warmth, bright light and even moisture.
Where it grows wild
Lowland forest, forest margins, secondary forest, roadsides and coastlines. In Taiwan it is described as a deciduous strangling fig that becomes a large tree with aerial roots; herbarium notes also record it in lowland dipterocarp and alluvial forest and on gravelly slopes.
Mostly near sea level: recorded from 0 to 1000 m, median about 80 m.
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